Arts Centre Melbourne, then Adelaide, Sydney and BrisbaneThis lively show, which imagines if Peter met Wendy Darling’s mother as a teenager, captures some of the wide-eyed wonder of the original
This lively show, which imagines if Peter met Wendy Darling’s mother as a teenager, captures some of the wide-eyed wonder of the originaladapted his own stage play into the novel Peter and Wendy years after the play’s initial success, and the character has been a staple of English theatre ever since.
The plot revolves not around Wendy but her mother, Molly ; here she is 13 years old, the daughter of Lord Aster and an apprentice “Starcatcher”. These are a secret society of people entrusted with the guardianship of “starstuff”, a magical dust capable of manifesting people’s desires.
Director and designer David Morton mounts a production that cleaves to the particular charms of rough theatre, leaning on modest puppetry and stage effects, astute use of physical movement and some rich lighting design rather than blockbuster coups de theatre. His cast throw themselves into the plot with liveliness and flair, doubling as musicians or puppeteers, tossing around accents and asides with abandon. It comes dangerously close to pantomime at times, but its energy rarely sags.
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