On his seventh birthday, Shrek's parents kick the young ogre out of their house and into the cruel world. They warn him that because of his looks, everyone will hate him, and he won't have a happy ending. Later, a now embittered, hardened Shrek is living contentedly alone in a swamp. But his solitude is disrupted when all the fairy-tale beings of the land begin showing up on his property, exiled from the Kingdom of Duloc by order of Lord Farquaad. Shrek decides to travel to see Farquaad to try to regain his privacy and along the way reluctantly rescues a talkative Donkey from some of the Lord's goons. Donkey insists on tagging along.
Meanwhile, Lord Farquaad is torturing the Gingerbread Man into revealing the whereabouts of the remaining fairy tale creatures in hiding when his guards arrive with the one magical item he's been searching for for years-the Magic Mirror. Upon asking if Duloc is the most perfect kingdom of them all, the Mirror informs him that Farquaad is technically not a king, but can become one if he marries a princess. Farquaad chooses Princess Fiona from three "eligible bachelorettes" but leaves before the Mirror can explain "the little thing that happens after sunset". The Mirror shows us outcast seven-year-old Princess Fiona dreaming of the brave knight who, her storybooks tell her, will one day rescue her from her tower, and end her mysterious curse with "True Love's Kiss". As she grows into a teenager, and then a headstrong woman, she becomes a little bit stir crazy, but never loses her faith in her fairy tales. Shrek the Musical tickets are not just for kids, Shrek is a play for the whole family. Go see Shrek and let the kid come out in you.
