JM Barrie, author
Douglas Irvine, featured playwright
Victor Zupanc, featured composer

64 pgs, 6 Actors/Puppeteers
Originally produced in CTC's 2008-09 season
Run Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Audience Recommendation: 7+

Peter Pan, who comes to hear the stories Mrs. Darling tells each night, has lost his shadow. Tinker Bell, his fairy friend, helps him search, but it's Wendy Darling that re-attaches his shadow in trade for a kiss. Peter flies Wendy and her brother Michael to Neverland to mother the Lost Boys.

The flight is the entrance to adventure! In Neverland, pirates, led by the infamous Captain Hook have stumbled on the secret underground home of Peter and the Lost Boys. They hatch a poisonous pirate plan, but hear the crocodile that stalks Hook and run away - just as the Boys come home. The Boys see what they think is a white bird flying. Tink tells them Peter wants it shot, and Tootles shoots Wendy with an arrow. Peter angrily banishes Tink and then realizes Tootles' arrow was stopped by the acorn-kiss Peter gave Wendy.

On Marooner's Rock, the children escape the grasp of mermaids, and hide as Smee and Starkey, two pirates, bring a captive to tie there. Peter saves the Indian princess, Tiger Lily, by tricking the pirate pair, but when Hook comes, they fight and Peter is wounded. Wendy becomes homesick, and soon she and the boys ask to go back to London. Peter refuses to go, but sends them off. As he falls asleep below, the pirates capture all the others as they leave the underground house!

As Peter sleeps, Tinker Bell sees Hook poison the medicine Peter promised Wendy he would take. When Peter wakes up, Tink quickly drinks the poison herself to save him. The audience saves her life by believing in fairies, and Peter flies to the rescue, engaging Hook in battle just as he is about to make the children walk the plank. After an elaborate fight, the waiting crocodile eats Hook, and Peter delivers the children home. He promises to return, and indeed he does, years later, to meet Wendy’s daughter, Jane, so that the story can continue.

"I have loved the story of Peter Pan for as long as I can remember. The adventures of the Darling children in Neverland has excited, enthralled and moved not only me, but generations of children and adults alike. But what is it that makes it so appealing? To answer is like trying to catch a shadow! But I do know that bringing this modern myth and its much loved characters to life for the stage has been a rare privilege, and exploring the world of Captain Hook, Wendy, the Lost Boys, and of course Peter, has been like exploring the shadows themselves - scary, fun, poetic, silly, profound and elusive - yet very, very real!" -Dougie Irvine, playwright

"...you can just feel your imagination grow." -St. Paul Pioneer Press