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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Mary DeMorgan, toy princess, Ursula

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Theatre and Media Arts

Abstract

Before describing the particulars of the project, it may be helpful to describe the story of the film I made as part of this ORCA grant. Mary DeMorgan’s A Toy Princess is about a young princess named Ursula who was born into an extremely stuffy and regimented kingdom where she wasn’t able to act as herself—nor was she even able to act as a human being would normally act, being restricted from laughing, crying, or displaying any sort of emotion. Seeing her unfortunate state, her fairy godmother, Taboret, offered her the chance to leave the kingdom to live with some people in a cottage who would appreciate her. In order to pull this off, she replaced the princess with a toy princess she bought from the Wizard Shop. However, when it came time for the king handover the kingdom to his successor, the fake, robotic Ursula. Upon hearing this news, Taboret thought it best to allow Ursula the chance to return and stake her claim to the kingdom. Oddly enough, the court people preferred the artificial Ursula to the real Ursula. Even the king, her father, preferred the artificial. Additionally, the real Ursula decided that the stiff, artificial kingdom wasn’t the place for her, and she opted for the real, and went back to live with the cottage people.

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