PETER PAN
By J. M. Barrie
Adapted by the company from Barrie's original play
Directed by Eric Tucker
The Duke on 42nd Street 229 West 42nd Street, New York City
November 11 – December 23, 2017
THE STORY.
A boy who refuses to grow up. A girl beginning to understand what growing up means. And a world where imagination can make almost anything possible.
One night, Peter Pan flies through the nursery window of the Darling family and whisks Wendy and her brothers away to Neverland—a place of lost boys, mermaids, pirates, and a dangerously theatrical villain named Captain Hook. Here, children can fly, adventures never end, and growing up seems like something that happens only to other people.
But Neverland has its own cruelties. Beneath the sword fights, games, and extraordinary freedom lies a world where children are abandoned, mothers are desperately missed, and the promise of eternal childhood begins to look less like a gift than a trap.
In Bedlam's Peter Pan, six actors create Barrie's fantastical world with almost nothing but their bodies, voices, and the audience's imagination. The transformations happen in plain sight, the theatrical illusions are joyfully exposed, and the familiar story reveals something stranger, darker, and more moving than the childhood fantasy we think we remember.
At its heart, Peter Pan is a story about the terrible beauty of childhood, the inevitability of change, and the price of refusing to let go.
THE WORD.
“Bedlam's energy is infectious.”
THE NEW YORKER
“Strikingly beautiful in its simplicity.”
OFF OFF ONLINE
“Full of surprises.”
THEATRE IS EASY
PEOPLE.
CAST
Brad Heberlee
Kelley Curran
Edmund Lewis
Susannah Millonzi
Zuzanna Szadkowski
Eric Tucker
Creative team and designers
Director | Eric Tucker
Scenic design | John McDermott
Costume design | Charlotte Palmer-Lane
Lighting design | Les Dickert
Sound design | Eric Tucker
Choreography | Alexandra Beller
Production stage manager | Diane Healy
Production manager | Joshua Shain
Production photography | Jeremy Daniel