Peter Pan

Synopsis

When the leader of the Lost Boys, the fleet-footed Peter Pan, loses his shadow during a visit to London, kind-hearted Wendy helps him re-attach it and is invited back to Neverland in return - where Tinker Bell the fairy, Princess Tiger Lily and, of course, the vengeful Captain Hook await.

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 14 May 2010

The National Theatre of Scotland returns to the Barbican with a native Peter Pan based on a brilliant idea: that the Lost Boys find their real-life, industrial counterparts in the gangs of “rivet boys” working on the Forth Bridge in Edinburgh at the end of the 19th century, a decade or so before J M Barrie wrote his tremendous play.

So, Cal MacAninch’s Mr Darling, a brown-suited engineer at home in Queensferry, is transformed into a bare-torsoed, black-kilted  foreman of a Captain Hook, and the red steel bridge, designed in three sections by Laura Hopkins, is a foliage-infested forest when it revolves through 180 degrees, even assuming the outline of a giant Jolly Roger.

The adaptation by David Greig and the production by John Tiffany falters only in the representation of Tiger Lily as a pair of she-wolves of no fixed fictional abode, but the central conceit is so audacious and imaginative that the show wins you over and stifles mem...

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Harry Altors - 22 May 2010:

Left a lot to be desired...

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