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PETER PAN
The Set
THE DARLINGS’ NURSERY:
At the back, left side is a tall window, with a window seat below it.
A single wooden bed, with white duvet and pillows, belonging to Wendy is at the back wall, with a small circular window, and three small pictures on the wall behind.
Centre back is a panelled door. To the right of the door are a chair and beds for John and Michael, and on the wall behind are five small pictures.
The bedroom floor is covered by a painting of a compass.
THE ROOF TOPS OF BELFAST
In a starlit sky we see tiled roofs, with one brightly lit attic window.
NEVERLAND
A clearing in a forest of tall bare branched trees, entwined with jungle snakes, which reach across at both sides. To the left is a white Red Indian tepee, with a red apex, red stars below and a band of green at the bottom. At back are two high totem poles, red and white, with a bird like figure at the top and mask like faces of men beneath, reach up among the trees. To their right is a huge hollow skull, with a wide open mouth of uneven teeth, with red fire glowing from inside it’s eyes. A red and blue painted compass occupies most of the forest floor. Mimi, the magical mermaid arrives on a motorised grey rocky seat, decorated with starfish and sea weed.
MAY SMEE
We first meet May when she is pulled in by ropes while sitting in a wooden rowing boat. Behind her is a curtain of blue gauze with white clouds.
CAPTAIN HOOK’S GALLEON:
One side of his pirate ship takes up the complete width of the stage, at the rear. It is wooden, with high prow and stern, rope rigging, tall mast with a look out platform , white sail and skull and cross bones flag. Seven carved wooden skulls decorate the side, and there is a row of seven small square lit windows, with lanterns hung on the stern.
SKULL ISLAND BACK DROP
We are looking at the island from the shore. To right and left are rocky cliffs, with a branch from which berries hang. The island has a skull shaped rocky cliff, with an entrance to caves through eyes, nose and mouth, hung with long creepers.
PETER’S UNDERGROUND HOME
Curving tree branches and roots over hang the hollow.
To the left a long ladder descends from above. Red and white spotted toadstools grow on the first floor at the rear. Underneath, the back wall is green with a floral pattern.
A black heating stove sits centre back, with bunk beds left and right below the overhang.
CROCODILE CREEK
At the end of Act One, with a background of black gauze covered by sparkling stars, an animated crocodile with huge snapping jaws, appears in the darkness.
ACT TWO
Scene 1 THE DECK OF THE JOLLY ROGER PIRATE SHIP
A staircase curves to the deck at centre rear. Above are the ship’s railings and lights.
The rigging is to the left, the mast, with crow’s nest is to the right. In front of the mast is a huge skull, red light shining from it’s eyes. A lit, raised curved area is inset into the floor in front of the skull. To the far right is a wooded door, half glass. An iron cannon sits centre left.
Scene 2 BENEATH THE WAVES
At the back are long waving strands of sea weed, and the blue sea. May sits on the large rock throne. A large octopus curves round.
Scene 4 VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
3D figures reach out, lunging towards us. A shark with wide mouth and long sharp teeth, piranhas, crabs, electric eels, an octopus, bubbles, flat fish, sword fish an unexploded mine and another enormous shark.
Scene 7 BELOW DECK/ BACK SCREEN
Left and right are curved wooden panelled walls, a wooden staircase sweeps down to four high curved windows of small diamond panelled glass.
The Cast and Costumes
May Smee is played by May McFettridge. Her famous craggy face and chunky build is instantly recognisable, as are her two blacked out teeth. She wears layers of thick, dramatic make up, including eye-shadow and rouge. May’s first outfit is a sailor’s dress. It is held away from her body at the hem by a rigid hoop, sewn into the skirt. It is blue and white striped, trimmed with red with a sailor’s collar. Red sequins spell out the words ‘Hello Ducky’ on the front of the dress. Plastic ducks dance round the hem of the skirt and when she turns her back we see the skirt is cut away to reveal her pantaloons with Ahoy written on the part covering her bottom. On her head, over a mass of white curls, she wears a lighthouse mounted on a boater as her outlandish hat. Her outfit is completed with white tights. Another outfit of May’s is blue. She now wears a blonde curly wig with a little blue bow in it. Her large bosom is prominent in it. The frock coat is dark blue, with massive puffed sleeves and is worn open over a lighter blue dress which has a white jabot at the neck. It has blue and white frills at the hem and cuffs of the coat which is decorated with gold. Later she appears in a plainer blue and white frock, also hooped, with a huge alarm clock on her head instead of a hat and with a big blue bow in front of it. and with blue shoes.
In the underwater sequence she appears as a mermaid with a high blue wig and big brown mussel shells over her bosom, with a scaly blue skirt beneath and huge blue flippers on her feet. Briefly she also wears a Wonder Woman type costume with ruby coloured top, blue panelled skirt, sparkling boots and a tiara.
Mimi the Magical Mermaid is played by Claire King. She is tall and imposing, with almond shaped eyes, high cheek bones, long, wispy, fair hair and a wide smile. He hair is adorned with feathers and a star fish. She wears a blue and green tight fitting skirt and fish scales on it which ends in a fish tail at the back. With this she wears a peplum top, also in blue-green. The part of this top which covers her bust is shaped in the form of two cockle shells. Sequins embellish her face and arms and round her neck she wears a round, glittery, blue-green necklace with dangling earrings in her ears. She wears high-heeled silver shoes.
Starkey’s part is taken by Paul Burling. He has an oval face, wide-set blue eyes and a broad mouth. He is broad shouldered and strong-looking. His head is completely bald and he wears a red and white spotted handkerchief on it. He wears a long-sleeved t shirt in broad red and white stripes, and over it an open yellow waistcoat. His red loose pedal-pusher style trousers go down to mid-calf and underneath he wears striped multi-coloured socks and red ankle boots.
Paddy Jenkins plays Smee. He is a frequent partner to May in the Grand Opera House pantomimes. He is a small slight figure, with a square face, wide-eyes, thin lips and an engaging smile. He wears a pink silk shirt with long sleeves and a large white collar trimmed with pink, and over this a purple waistcoat. His red pantaloons fit loosely to just below his knees and are decorated in gold. A small, flat, sailor’s cap embellished with a scull and crossbones at the front, with a swatch of red velvet hanging down at one side, balances on his head.
Captain Hook is played by David Bedella. He has an athletic figure with a long face and deep, dark eyes which are outlined in black. He wears an eighteenth century style long curly black wig and has a painted on, upward-turned, evil moustache above a small goatee beard. He wears a huge black hat with a feather, an 18th century frock coat in black, trimmed with gold, with gold epaulettes and glitter, with a belted tunic in dark green, beneath it and a white lace jabot at his neck. He has black knee length boots over tight-fitting, black velvet trousers. At one point in the action he appears in a beige dressing gown, trimmed in dark brown, wearing huge rollers in his hair. He also turnd up later in a long red waistcoat trimmed with gold over a grey shirt with a white jabot at the neck. Of course he only has one hand. The other hand ends in an impressively large hook!
Mikey Jay-Heath plays Peter Pan. He is a slight figure with short black hair brushed away from his face which is oval and classically handsome with wide-spaced intense dark eyes, a straight nose and small mouth. He appears in green velvet trousers and a green jerkin, decorated with leaves and he wears green gloves. In the finale he flies in from above wearing a white outfit with blue sparkles.
Natalie Winsor is Tiger Lily. She has a slim, toned dancer’s body with an oval face with dark skin, large dark brown eyes a wide nose and full mouth. She has masses of long, loose, frizzy hair contained by a head band on her forehead. She wears a green bra top and her midriff is bare. Beneath it she wears a short apron type skirt, a panel at the front and a panel at the back, stopping high on her thighs with red-fringed decoration. She wears green wrist bands and has bare legs with shoes with a low heel.
Tinker Bell is played by Hollie O’Donoghue. She has thick fair hear which she wears in a bun, surmounted by a tiara. She has large, widely spaced light eyes, a broad nose and wide mouth, with a pointed chin. She has a slight, dainty figure and wears a white skater’s dress with narrow shoulder straps. The dress is made up of frilly layers, and white wings attached to her back. She wears roller skates on her feet so skates for most of the show.
Wendy’s part is taken by Kweeva Garvey. She is slim with has long, loose brown hair high cheek bones, wide set eyes and a broad mouth. She wears an old-fashioned long, spotted, white nightdress, embellished with frills at the wrist and hem.
John Darling is played by Jack McAvoy or Louis McCartney. John is a small figure, obviously a child and wears check pyjamas
Michael Darling is played by Noah Glover or Beau Nathaniel Starkey. Michael is slightly bigger than John, but is still quite definitely a child. Michael wears a blue check dressing-gown over his check pyjamas. He wears round spectacles with a top hat on his head and carries a large black umbrella.
The Ensemble are sometimes Indians and wear short brightly coloured tabard type skirts slit down the sides and similarly bright bra tops. Their faces are adorned with black paint and they wear headbands and long black pigtails. The male Red Indians wear tight trousers which end above their knees, under green apron type skirts with no backs. They wear small embroidered boleros over bare chests and have blue and red feathered head-dresses. The Red Indians’ clothes are made from woven ethnic fabric.
They also take the part of the pirates, with handkerchiefs on their heads, white shirts with full sleeves gathered into tight cuffs, short waistcoats and trousers with contrasting stripes down the side, with sashes round the waist and tucked into knee-length black boots.
In the under water sequence, they wear colourful sea creature costumes. There’s an octopus, a lobster and various fish in purple and blue, who all dance together. Some small fish also appear bringing on a huge purple octopus with a big smile. As eighteenth century ladies the women wear splendid hoped skirts with frills and tucks and have high white wigs decorated with bows, on their heads.
There is also an ensemble of children who become the Lost Boys. In this guise they wear fur hats with tails hanging down the back, jerkins, jackets and short trousers. Some of the outfits are trimmed with fur.
At the close of the show everyone appears in rich blue toned clothes, with the female Indians wearing huge feathered blue head dresses, Hook in a blue frock coat, Michael and John in posh 19th Century children’s clothes, Wendy in a blue Alice in Wonderland-type full, belted, blue dress and May in a glittery blue frock with a sailing boat on her head as a hat. The final song of the show is breath-taking with the entire cast in new, eye catching clothes.
Peter Pan is directed by Jonathan Kiley and choreography is by David Wood. The lighting design is by Alex Marshall and speciality costumes by Mike Coltman. We hope you enjoy the show.
The Set
THE DARLINGS’ NURSERY:
At the back, left side is a tall window, with a window seat below it.
A single wooden bed, with white duvet and pillows, belonging to Wendy is at the back wall, with a small circular window, and three small pictures on the wall behind.
Centre back is a panelled door. To the right of the door are a chair and beds for John and Michael, and on the wall behind are five small pictures.
The bedroom floor is covered by a painting of a compass.
THE ROOF TOPS OF BELFAST
In a starlit sky we see tiled roofs, with one brightly lit attic window.
NEVERLAND
A clearing in a forest of tall bare branched trees, entwined with jungle snakes, which reach across at both sides. To the left is a white Red Indian tepee, with a red apex, red stars below and a band of green at the bottom. At back are two high totem poles, red and white, with a bird like figure at the top and mask like faces of men beneath, reach up among the trees. To their right is a huge hollow skull, with a wide open mouth of uneven teeth, with red fire glowing from inside it’s eyes. A red and blue painted compass occupies most of the forest floor. Mimi, the magical mermaid arrives on a motorised grey rocky seat, decorated with starfish and sea weed.
MAY SMEE
We first meet May when she is pulled in by ropes while sitting in a wooden rowing boat. Behind her is a curtain of blue gauze with white clouds.
CAPTAIN HOOK’S GALLEON:
One side of his pirate ship takes up the complete width of the stage, at the rear. It is wooden, with high prow and stern, rope rigging, tall mast with a look out platform , white sail and skull and cross bones flag. Seven carved wooden skulls decorate the side, and there is a row of seven small square lit windows, with lanterns hung on the stern.
SKULL ISLAND BACK DROP
We are looking at the island from the shore. To right and left are rocky cliffs, with a branch from which berries hang. The island has a skull shaped rocky cliff, with an entrance to caves through eyes, nose and mouth, hung with long creepers.
PETER’S UNDERGROUND HOME
Curving tree branches and roots over hang the hollow.
To the left a long ladder descends from above. Red and white spotted toadstools grow on the first floor at the rear. Underneath, the back wall is green with a floral pattern.
A black heating stove sits centre back, with bunk beds left and right below the overhang.
CROCODILE CREEK
At the end of Act One, with a background of black gauze covered by sparkling stars, an animated crocodile with huge snapping jaws, appears in the darkness.
ACT TWO
Scene 1 THE DECK OF THE JOLLY ROGER PIRATE SHIP
A staircase curves to the deck at centre rear. Above are the ship’s railings and lights.
The rigging is to the left, the mast, with crow’s nest is to the right. In front of the mast is a huge skull, red light shining from it’s eyes. A lit, raised curved area is inset into the floor in front of the skull. To the far right is a wooded door, half glass. An iron cannon sits centre left.
Scene 2 BENEATH THE WAVES
At the back are long waving strands of sea weed, and the blue sea. May sits on the large rock throne. A large octopus curves round.
Scene 4 VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
3D figures reach out, lunging towards us. A shark with wide mouth and long sharp teeth, piranhas, crabs, electric eels, an octopus, bubbles, flat fish, sword fish an unexploded mine and another enormous shark.
Scene 7 BELOW DECK/ BACK SCREEN
Left and right are curved wooden panelled walls, a wooden staircase sweeps down to four high curved windows of small diamond panelled glass.
The Cast and Costumes
May Smee is played by May McFettridge. Her famous craggy face and chunky build is instantly recognisable, as are her two blacked out teeth. She wears layers of thick, dramatic make up, including eye-shadow and rouge. May’s first outfit is a sailor’s dress. It is held away from her body at the hem by a rigid hoop, sewn into the skirt. It is blue and white striped, trimmed with red with a sailor’s collar. Red sequins spell out the words ‘Hello Ducky’ on the front of the dress. Plastic ducks dance round the hem of the skirt and when she turns her back we see the skirt is cut away to reveal her pantaloons with Ahoy written on the part covering her bottom. On her head, over a mass of white curls, she wears a lighthouse mounted on a boater as her outlandish hat. Her outfit is completed with white tights. Another outfit of May’s is blue. She now wears a blonde curly wig with a little blue bow in it. Her large bosom is prominent in it. The frock coat is dark blue, with massive puffed sleeves and is worn open over a lighter blue dress which has a white jabot at the neck. It has blue and white frills at the hem and cuffs of the coat which is decorated with gold. Later she appears in a plainer blue and white frock, also hooped, with a huge alarm clock on her head instead of a hat and with a big blue bow in front of it. and with blue shoes.
In the underwater sequence she appears as a mermaid with a high blue wig and big brown mussel shells over her bosom, with a scaly blue skirt beneath and huge blue flippers on her feet. Briefly she also wears a Wonder Woman type costume with ruby coloured top, blue panelled skirt, sparkling boots and a tiara.
Mimi the Magical Mermaid is played by Claire King. She is tall and imposing, with almond shaped eyes, high cheek bones, long, wispy, fair hair and a wide smile. He hair is adorned with feathers and a star fish. She wears a blue and green tight fitting skirt and fish scales on it which ends in a fish tail at the back. With this she wears a peplum top, also in blue-green. The part of this top which covers her bust is shaped in the form of two cockle shells. Sequins embellish her face and arms and round her neck she wears a round, glittery, blue-green necklace with dangling earrings in her ears. She wears high-heeled silver shoes.
Starkey’s part is taken by Paul Burling. He has an oval face, wide-set blue eyes and a broad mouth. He is broad shouldered and strong-looking. His head is completely bald and he wears a red and white spotted handkerchief on it. He wears a long-sleeved t shirt in broad red and white stripes, and over it an open yellow waistcoat. His red loose pedal-pusher style trousers go down to mid-calf and underneath he wears striped multi-coloured socks and red ankle boots.
Paddy Jenkins plays Smee. He is a frequent partner to May in the Grand Opera House pantomimes. He is a small slight figure, with a square face, wide-eyes, thin lips and an engaging smile. He wears a pink silk shirt with long sleeves and a large white collar trimmed with pink, and over this a purple waistcoat. His red pantaloons fit loosely to just below his knees and are decorated in gold. A small, flat, sailor’s cap embellished with a scull and crossbones at the front, with a swatch of red velvet hanging down at one side, balances on his head.
Captain Hook is played by David Bedella. He has an athletic figure with a long face and deep, dark eyes which are outlined in black. He wears an eighteenth century style long curly black wig and has a painted on, upward-turned, evil moustache above a small goatee beard. He wears a huge black hat with a feather, an 18th century frock coat in black, trimmed with gold, with gold epaulettes and glitter, with a belted tunic in dark green, beneath it and a white lace jabot at his neck. He has black knee length boots over tight-fitting, black velvet trousers. At one point in the action he appears in a beige dressing gown, trimmed in dark brown, wearing huge rollers in his hair. He also turnd up later in a long red waistcoat trimmed with gold over a grey shirt with a white jabot at the neck. Of course he only has one hand. The other hand ends in an impressively large hook!
Mikey Jay-Heath plays Peter Pan. He is a slight figure with short black hair brushed away from his face which is oval and classically handsome with wide-spaced intense dark eyes, a straight nose and small mouth. He appears in green velvet trousers and a green jerkin, decorated with leaves and he wears green gloves. In the finale he flies in from above wearing a white outfit with blue sparkles.
Natalie Winsor is Tiger Lily. She has a slim, toned dancer’s body with an oval face with dark skin, large dark brown eyes a wide nose and full mouth. She has masses of long, loose, frizzy hair contained by a head band on her forehead. She wears a green bra top and her midriff is bare. Beneath it she wears a short apron type skirt, a panel at the front and a panel at the back, stopping high on her thighs with red-fringed decoration. She wears green wrist bands and has bare legs with shoes with a low heel.
Tinker Bell is played by Hollie O’Donoghue. She has thick fair hear which she wears in a bun, surmounted by a tiara. She has large, widely spaced light eyes, a broad nose and wide mouth, with a pointed chin. She has a slight, dainty figure and wears a white skater’s dress with narrow shoulder straps. The dress is made up of frilly layers, and white wings attached to her back. She wears roller skates on her feet so skates for most of the show.
Wendy’s part is taken by Kweeva Garvey. She is slim with has long, loose brown hair high cheek bones, wide set eyes and a broad mouth. She wears an old-fashioned long, spotted, white nightdress, embellished with frills at the wrist and hem.
John Darling is played by Jack McAvoy or Louis McCartney. John is a small figure, obviously a child and wears check pyjamas
Michael Darling is played by Noah Glover or Beau Nathaniel Starkey. Michael is slightly bigger than John, but is still quite definitely a child. Michael wears a blue check dressing-gown over his check pyjamas. He wears round spectacles with a top hat on his head and carries a large black umbrella.
The Ensemble are sometimes Indians and wear short brightly coloured tabard type skirts slit down the sides and similarly bright bra tops. Their faces are adorned with black paint and they wear headbands and long black pigtails. The male Red Indians wear tight trousers which end above their knees, under green apron type skirts with no backs. They wear small embroidered boleros over bare chests and have blue and red feathered head-dresses. The Red Indians’ clothes are made from woven ethnic fabric.
They also take the part of the pirates, with handkerchiefs on their heads, white shirts with full sleeves gathered into tight cuffs, short waistcoats and trousers with contrasting stripes down the side, with sashes round the waist and tucked into knee-length black boots.
In the under water sequence, they wear colourful sea creature costumes. There’s an octopus, a lobster and various fish in purple and blue, who all dance together. Some small fish also appear bringing on a huge purple octopus with a big smile. As eighteenth century ladies the women wear splendid hoped skirts with frills and tucks and have high white wigs decorated with bows, on their heads.
There is also an ensemble of children who become the Lost Boys. In this guise they wear fur hats with tails hanging down the back, jerkins, jackets and short trousers. Some of the outfits are trimmed with fur.
At the close of the show everyone appears in rich blue toned clothes, with the female Indians wearing huge feathered blue head dresses, Hook in a blue frock coat, Michael and John in posh 19th Century children’s clothes, Wendy in a blue Alice in Wonderland-type full, belted, blue dress and May in a glittery blue frock with a sailing boat on her head as a hat. The final song of the show is breath-taking with the entire cast in new, eye catching clothes.
Peter Pan is directed by Jonathan Kiley and choreography is by David Wood. The lighting design is by Alex Marshall and speciality costumes by Mike Coltman. We hope you enjoy the show.
