Peter - LOST Theatre
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
DAVID Hutchinson and Phillip Rowntree for Sell a Door Theatre Company are presenting the world premiere of Peter, a new play by emerging playwright Stacy Sobieski, at the LOST Theatre, where it runs from October 23 to November 10, 2012.
Peter Llewelyn Davies was just an infant in his pram when he became the namesake for J.M. Barrie’s most famous creation, Peter Pan.
With the play proving to be an immediate hit, the Davies family was thrown into the limelight, with a reluctant Peter Davies at the forefront. But what happened when “the boy who wouldn’t grow up” tried to do just that?
Picking up where Finding Neverland left off, the action of the play follows Peter Davies from his carefree childhood to his troublesome adulthood. As the media relentlessly documents his every move, continuously labeling him as “the real Peter Pan,” Peter struggles to form an identity of his own.
Soon, unable to separate himself from what he describes as “that terrible masterpiece,” he begins to spiral into a deep depression. As the walls come crashing down around him, Peter searches desperately for that elusive glimmer of hope which had once shown so brightly in his boyhood. Will he find it, or will he forever be the boy who couldn’t grow up?
Speaking about the play, Director David Hutchinson said:
“Stacy has a unique approach to writing that I admire in its complexity and precision. She follows the Kneehigh and Shared Experience approach of heavily researching her work, so that every scene is embodied in truth as she narrates real people’s stories.”
Tickets: £12, £10 concessions – available from the box office on 0844 847 1680 or online at www.losttheatre.co.uk/ and www.selladoor.com.
Times: Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Saturday and Sunday at 2.30pm.