This ties the show more tightly than the film version to that period, while also painting a vivid romantic picture of Paris which could belong in any time in the 21st century. This and several other clever comedic moments make this a very humorous play.įast forward a few years and Amélie now works at a café in Paris in the mid-nineties, when Princess Diana died. Her mother’s ashes then become interred in the Gnome which she hated the most, but Amelie has other ideas and sends the Gnome on a round the world trip to allow her to travel without being controlled by her father. The unfortunate death of her mother, who is crushed by a falling suicide victim, is brushed off with Amélie’s sense of humour. She first appears as her younger self as a puppet to play out her childhood traumas, including the death of her only friend a goldfish, whose life is so stressful it commits suicide by jumping from the fish-tank. What he can’t see is her amazing gift for romance and her strong imagination which takes her away from it all.
Her family upbringing was choked by a neurotic mother and a father more interested in his gnomes than an actual conversation with his daughter.Īlso as her doctor, he provides Amélie with monthly checkups and diagnoses her with a weak heart, and smothers her. Amélie The Musical theatre review: Amélie Poulain’s imagination is a whimsical fantasy set in 90s Paris.Īmélie ( Audrey Brisson) is a girl trapped in her own small world for fear of truly immersing herself in the real one.
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