Peter Pan

Our Review:

Alison Carr - 15 December 2009

“All children, except one, grow up.”

So opens JM Barrie’s classic book Peter Pan, the magical tale of the little boy who refuses to tow the party line and get an office job.

It has all the ingredients for the perfect Panto – a daring hero fighting swashbuckling pirates in an enchanted land beyond the stars.

Emmerdale star and Sunderland’s own James Baxter stars as Peter Pan – swooping on through the nursery window of the Darling family home to whisk Wendy (Keeran Rose Greener) and her brothers off to his Neverland home.

Baxter is endearing as the wide-eyed adventurer, and he and the delightfully sweet Greener make a charming couple. Pity then that their ending is somewhat downbeat – no finale walk down wedding for these two.

John Challis (aka Boycie from ‘Only Fools and Horses’) ventures out of Peckham aboard the Jolly Roger to headline as the dastardly ...

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S. Cleugh - 3 January 2010:

This is the first time I have been to a panto in 20+ years and it was brilliant. The cast were fantastic and particularly Steve Walls and Steve Luck. It was the first experience of live theatre for my grandchildren (4 & 5) and they enjoyed every moment. What miserable Scrooges are those negative people who are so critical. ...

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