" I ran away the day I was born," said Peter, "cause I heard Father and Mother talking of what I was to be when I became a man. I want always to be a little boy and to have fun, Wendy".
But this could not be for the Darlings; all children, except one, grow up.
1914 is a very different world. Faced with this reality, their only escape is to let imagination take flight to Never Land.
George Llewelyn Davies, killed in action in WW1, was one of the children who inspired this iconic character. Remembering him, and a generation of lost boys, Timothy Sheader and
Liam Steel rediscovered J. M. Barrie’s original stage play.
From the lagoons and pirate ships of Never Land, to flying in the open air, this was our most ambitious production yet.
★★★★★ “It’s rare to find a show that can delight young and old in equal measure, but Peter Pan pulls it off. There’s an enlightening interpretation to the original that will touch adults, and copious adventure, excitement and wonder to keep kids enthralled.”CultureWhisper
By arrangement with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.
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A VISIONARY and DEFINING production"
Daily Telegraph
The elegant, poetic irony that shadows the action is unmistakable; it’s a shimmering mix of dream and nightmare”
Independent
Fight scenes are ROLLICKING, while the buoyant, bouncing flying will have you yearning to join in."
DigitalSpy
All of the performances...are heartwarming and hilarious, while David Birrell brilliantly plays Hook as a mix between the Pirate King and Stephen Fry in Blackadder."
AYoungerTheatre.com
This is a DARING and INGENIOUS exhibition of how theatre can transfigure the old stories we know so well into an encounter so singular, we forget we ever knew the story at all.”
CultureWhisper.com
The production benefits from the same focus on story-telling that artistic director Timothy Sheader used so effectively in his production of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s rare to find a show that can delight young and old in equal measure, but Peter Pan pulls it off."
Financial Times
The flying, led by Hiran Abeysekera's charismatic and impish Peter, is joyous."
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CREATIVE TEAM
- Jon Bausor – Designer
- Rebecca Brower – Associate Set Designer
- Candida Caldicot – Musical Supervisor and Director
- Rachel Canning – Puppet Designer/Director
- Fiona Dunn – Assistant Director
- Rick Fisher – Lighting Designer
- Barbara Houseman – Voice and Text Coach
- Polly Jerrold – Casting Director
- Nick Lidster – Sound Designer
- Jon Morrell – Costume Designer
- Nick Powell – Composer and Sound Score
- Tim Sheader – Director
- Liam Steel – Director
- Kate Waters – Fight Director
CAST
- Hiran Abeysekera – Peter Pan
- Kae Alexander – Wendy Darling
- Rebecca Askew – Singer
- Jacob James Beswick – Twin
- David Birrell – Captain Hook
- George Bukhari – Nibs
- Okorie Chukwu – Pirate
- Thomas Dennis – Michael Darling
- Rachel Donovan – Tinkerbell
- Eben Figueiredo – Tootles
- Owain Gwynn – Pirate
- Jonathan Holby – Pirate
- Richard James-Neale – Curly
- Arthur Kyeyune – Pirate
- Chris Lew Kum Hoi – Twin
- Patrick Osborne – John Darling
- Melanie Pappenheim – Singer
- Thomas Pickles – Slightly
- Carl Prekopp – Gentleman Starkey
- Beverly Rudd – Smee
- Joe Swain – Show Climber/Pirate
