WENDY & PETER PAN
by Ella Hickson
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Royal Shakespeare Company
Orchard Hall Tokyo and Leeds Playhouse -
Director - Jonathan Munby
Designer - Colin Richmond
Lighting Designer - Oliver Fenwick (RSC / Leeds) Jiro (Tokyo)
Music - Olly Fox (RSC) / Shuhei Kamimura (Tokyo)
Sound Designer - Chris Shutt
Movement Director - Mike Ashcroft (RSC), Ikuyo Kuroda (Orchard Hall), Lucy Hind (Leeds Playhouse)
Fight Director - Terry King (RSC / Leeds) Morokaji (Tokyo)
Casting Director - Hannah Miller and Annelie Powell
Associate Director - Caroline Byrne (RSC), James Blakey (RSC), Rupert Hands (Tokyo / Leeds)
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This version is certainly one of the best. Director Jonathan Munby sprinkles his own fairy dust to help matters fly… Clap hands if you believe? You bet.
Financial Times
★★★★★
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Adult actors play all the characters in Jonathan Munby’s supple and confident production, which is exactly the right choice, given the idea that everyone is uneasily on the brink of the confusing sensations of adulthood…
Evening Standard
★★★★★
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The production is as magical as you could wish for – with spectacular flying and sets, great use of space, lighting, music and projection. I laughed, I gasped, I cried – it is wonderful to be transported so completely by a piece of theatre. I hope that this production gets a life beyond the end of this run. It has the potential to enthrall audiences for many years to come.
What’s on Stage
★★★★★
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The RSC’s resoundingly successful reinvention of J.M. Barrie’s classic… The great achievement of Jonathan Munby’s production is to bring back some edge to these Edwardian antics — while still providing a rousing spectacular for ages 7 and up.
The Times
★★★★★
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Congratulations are in order to playwright Ella Hickson and director Jonathan Munby for pulling off the tricky task of enthralling young audiences at the RSC, while making those more advanced in years ponder the JM Barrie classic anew.…this is a gripping account of a ripping yarn - and anyone who says otherwise should be made to walk the plank.
Daily Telegraph
★★★★
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Wendy puts Peter Pan in place in a soaring RSC production.
Sunday Times
★★★★
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Jonathan Munby's spectacular thrust-stage production creates a Never Land that's a magical distortion of the Darling nursery and warm, irreverent humour surges through this saga of empowerment….Highly recommended.
Independent
★★★★
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Jonathan Munby's directorial conception exuberantly juxtaposes technology and actor-led stunts. Every which way, the results are magical.
Observer
★★★★