Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre have today announced casting for Peter Pan (17 May – 15 June). A revival of their 2015 Olivier Award-nominated production, Fiston Barek takes the role of Peter Pan and Dennis Herdman takes the role of Captain Hook. Peter Pan launches the 2018 season in the final year of the First World War Centenary Commemorations.
For the wounded soldiers of WW1, imagination is their only escape. Yet as they’re transported to the fantastical lagoons and pirate ships of Never Land, allegories of the war they’ve left behind are ever present. George Llewelyn Davies, later killed in action in 1915, was one of the children who inspired J. M. Barrie to create the iconic character of Peter Pan. Remembering him, and a generation of Lost Boys, the production enchanted young and old alike during its original, critically acclaimed run.
