Fairy dust: Peter Pan meets Tinkerbell. Pic: Manuel Harlan
A new production of the JM Barrie story, Peter Pan, will be set in Edinburgh. Traditionally Peter and his chums fly over the rooftops of London.
But in this National Theatre of Scotland version, marking the 150th anniversary of the author’s birth, Peter is coming home.
Award-winning Scottish playwright David Greig imagines the magical tale taking place in Victorian Edinburgh. It’s directed by Olivier Award winning John Tiffany.
The Darling family will have refined Scottish accents as they pursue the usual romps with Lost Boys pirates and crocodiles.
The show will be performed in Scotland and London in April and June this year.
In this production, Mr Darling now works as an engineer on the Forth Rail Bridge. The bridge itself will feature on the stage set of the spectacular production.
Mr Greig told The Herald: “Yes, there are some specific direct changes, such as setting the Darling household in Edinburgh and Mr Darling works as an engineer on the Forth Bridge, but the adaptation is more broadly an attempt to connect with JM Barrie’s roots, and the stories and mythologies that he would have grown up with in late Victorian Scotland.”
Audiences will enjoy feature sword fights, flying sequences, acrobats, fire-eaters and, of course, a ticking reptile.
It will tour to the King’s Theatre in Glasgow, the Barbican in London, Eden Court in Inverness, Festival Theatre in Edinburgh and His Majesty’s in Aberdeen from April 23 to June 19.
