![]() ![]() ![]() We do so not to set it in stone, but to encourage performers of this play to recognise its roots, explore its flaws and grapple with the challenges that the language and some parts of the story present to a modern audience. We therefore continue to provide access to the original text, as written, in all its complexity. While the emotional essence of Barrie’s story is timeless, its history is an integral part of its creation: woven into its fabric and a vital key to unpicking its meaning. Barrie’s text reflects the attitudes, language and society prevalent at the place and moment of its inception, some of which can be challenging – even alien – to us today. We approach Peter Pan with very different eyes today than we would have over one hundred years ago. ![]() It is only right that the play evolves too. Peter Pan famously refused to grow up, but the world has grown up around him. One of the wonders of J M Barrie’s story is the way it has lodged in the imaginations of children in every corner of the globe, imagined and reimagined by generation after generation. Peter Pan first took flight over a hundred years ago. The action escalates when the Darlings are captured by Hook and, with Peter’s help, escape, taking the Lost Boys home with them. Barrie’s classic tells the story of Wendy, John and Michael Darling’s adventures in Neverland with the inimitable Peter Pan, “the boy who would not grow up.” In Neverland, the Darlings are introduced to the Lost Boys, Peter’s jealous fairy friend Tinker Bell, the infamous pirate Captain Hook, and the crocodile who swallowed Hook's hand. ![]()
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