"Last Updated on October 30, 2025 Ella Hickson's adaptation of JM Barrie's classic Peter Pan, Wendy & Peter Pan, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and directed by Jonathan Munby, imagines the story with a focus on Wendy. It is a feminist retelling done in simplistic, family-friendly comedic broad strokes and soundbites with stonkingly good production values, taking full advantage of the expansive Barbican theatre stage and its excellent acoustics."
"Wendy & Peter Pan opens in a family townhouse in London in 1910, complete with wooden-beamed high ceilings, beds with brass knobs, a doll's house the size of a small child and colourful patchwork quilts. Wendy Darling and her three brothers, in nightwear and dressing gowns, play a raucous game of make-believe while their proud parents look on. It is cold outside, which we know from the excellent projection onto the set of a wintry night sky,"
Wendy & Peter Pan imagines Peter Pan with a focus on Wendy and frames the narrative as a feminist retelling in family-friendly, comedic broad strokes. The production leverages the expansive Barbican stage and excellent acoustics to deliver high production values. The show opens in a detailed 1910 London townhouse set, contrasting a cold wintry night projection with a warm interior family scene. Tragedy strikes when the youngest brother, Tom, dies and is carried away by Peter Pan and the Shadows, whose group movement is haunting and nuanced. Tinker is portrayed as assertive and cockney rather than dainty, and Wendy evolves into a mother figure for the Lost Boys while Peter contends with Captain Hook.
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