Welcome to the Whatsonstage.com Theatre Club

Peter Pan

West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
From: Saturday, 22nd November 2008
To: Saturday, 31 January 2009

Our Review:

Search for tickets

Use the link below to search for Peter Pan tickets on your desired date.

We're sorry, it seems that we do not currently sell tickets for this show. Please go directly to the box office.

Synopsis

Musical adaptation of JM Barrie's adventure in Never Never Land

Our Review:

4 December 2008

Peter Pan - A Musical Adventure, seen last year at Birmingham Rep in what I termed a �no-holds-barred production� full of �spectacle, humour and magic�, seems, if anything, more upfront than ever as it transfers to the West Yorkshire Playhouse whilst last year�s equally successful The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe makes the reverse journey to Birmingham.

This version of Peter Pan, first seen in 1996, is an extremely skilful filleting of J.M. Barrie�s play by the late Willis Hall, using a Storyteller to take us through the familiar narrative of the adventures of the Darling children with Peter Pan, Lost Boys, Pirates and Red Indians, and the final return to responsibility for all except Peter.

Hall�s version preserves the essence of the original while making room for over a dozen songs, plus numerous reprises, by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. The comic songs, full of zest, silliness and ingenious rhymes, are a joy an...

Read more of the review