My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl

My Love, My Love: or, The Peasant Girl is a Caribbean re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" "with a dash of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet." In the tale, Desiree is a beautiful peasant who falls in love with a handsome upper-class boy whom she saved in an accident. His family does not approve of Desiree, for she is too black and too poor for their son who will be king. Concepts of sacrifice and pure love reign throughout the novel. It was adapted for the Broadway musical, Once on This Island by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. The show's original cast ran for a year, from 1990 to 1991, and was then revived in December 2017 at Circle in the Square Theater. It won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.