Year: 1983
Title of the play: Peter Pan
Author: J. M. Barrie
Director: John Caird
Others in the Cast: Stephen Moore, Frances Tomelty, Mark Rylance, Susan Leong, Katharine Levy, Katy Behean
Company/Event: Royal Shakespeare Company
Theatre and location: Barbican Theatre, London
Other productions of the same play:
Plot summary: Peter Pan takes Wendy and her brothers to Neverland, where he lives with the lost boys. Wendy becomes their “mother” and the three children live in Neverland till they grow homesick. But before they can return, they are kidnapped by the pirate, Hook.
Peth’s role: Storyteller
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The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Peter Pan opened at the Barbican Theatre in 1982, and was revived in 1983 and 1984, each time with a different Peter. Miles Anderson was the first adult man to play the role of Peter, followed in subsequent years by Mark Rylance and John McAndrew. The part has traditionally been played by a woman but Trevor Nunn and John Caird, the directors, recognised that the piece, like many other children's classics, also has a darker side which remained unnoticed while the play conformed to the pantomime convention of a principal boy. Shakespeare.org
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