Rachel Kavanaugh on Peter Pan
November 3, 2008
To my slight embarrassment, I have to interview Peter Pan director Rachel Kavanaugh while she eats her lunch of jacket potato and tuna. The efficiency with which she manages to juggle the two tasks is precisely what I expect from her – if her artistic energy suffers from limits, no-one yet seems to have noticed them.
First performed last year at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, where Kavanaugh is in her third year as artistic director, Peter Pan reaches the West Yorkshire Playhouse as the culmination of an agreement that she made with WYP artistic director Ian Brown. The arrangement is that, after each performed at its home theatre last Christmas, Peter Pan and Brown’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe are swapping for this one.
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