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After Colonel and Mrs. Grey return from India, their children struggle to connect with their mother. Amy’s theatrical fantasies lead her to mistake her mother’s affectionate friendship with Stephen Rollo for an affair, creating a chain of misunderstandings before the family reconciles.
The theme of the play is whether it would benefit people if they could have their lives over again and make different choices. The characters consist of dissatisfied couples, who all feel that they have taken the wrong turning in life. They are brought together to the house of an ancient individual bearing the Shakespearean name of Lob, who is described as "all that is left of Merry England". In Act 3 the characters return to reality, having benefited to varying degrees from their experiences in the wood in Act 2. The butler resigns himself to domestic service rather than high finance; the philanderer is mortified but predicts he will be unable to reform; an elderly man who had longed for a second youth proposes again to his faithful spouse; the artist and his wife are reconciled, and the dream child of Act 2 has become almost real to both of them and lives on in their hearts.
At a girls’ school near Oxford, the supposedly virtuous Jane Annie disrupts Bab’s attempt to elope and wins a conduct prize. She then uses hypnotism to arrange romantic pairings and to get the headmistress, proctor, and students to approve an end-of-term celebration and the couples’ escape.
Wendy Darling appears in an in-the-round adaptation of Peter Pan, performed inside a purpose-built pavilion with 360-degree video projections surrounding the audience.
Peter Pan, a boy who refuses to grow up, takes Wendy and her younger brothers to Neverland, where they join the Lost Boys and face Captain Hook and his pirates. After their adventures, Wendy and the boys return to their parents, while Peter declines the offer to stay with the family.
The play is set in Napoleonic times. Act 1 There is heightened anticipation as the local gossips of the town discuss the developing relationship between Miss Phoebe Throssel and Valentine Brown. Phoebe then confesses to her sister, Susan, that Brown intends to drop by later that day, and both are certain he means to propose. When he finally does appear, it is not to ask for Phoebe's hand in marriage but to announce his intention to join the fight in Europe against Napoleon. This leaves the girls devastated. Act 2 Ten years after the departure of Brown, we find the girls have set up a school in order to pay the rent. Phoebe has not accepted any other suitor and has allowed herself to become an "Old Maid" and school mistress. Phoebe, however, longs for her youth, and the return of Captain Brown only deepens her melancholy. "I am tired of being lady-like," she declares. With some encouragement from her maid, Patty, she creates the fictional character of Miss Livvy, a more energetic, flirtatious and naughty version of her younger self, and begins to tease Captain Brown who, captivated by her, persuades her and Susan to accompany him to the ball. Act 3 At the ball, and Phoebe is still playing the part of Miss Livvy. In this guise, she has captured the eyes of many of the young men and the scorn of ladies. However, Phoebe is now annoyed that Brown seems to prefer this unsubstantial 'young' flirt that she has created to her true personality and qualities. Her actions cause events to come to a head as her act is almost brought to light by the local gossiping girls Fanny Willoughby and Henrietta Turnbull. In a final confrontation with Captain Brown, we discover that he has found his love for Miss Phoebe and not for Miss Livvy, as he insists that "I have discovered for myself that the schoolmistress in her old maid's cap is the noblest Miss Phoebe of them all." Act 4 Miss Livvy still hangs heavy over the sisters: having been created, she is now difficult to dispose of. The local gossips watch for any sign of Miss Livvy and frequently visit the sisters' home. Brown comes to ask for Phoebe’s hand and is turned down without explanation. As a result, he becomes aware of the disguise and the sisters' plight and sets out to right all wrongs, even his own.
After a family of aristocrats and their servants are shipwrecked, the practical butler Crichton becomes the island's leader while his former masters become his subjects. Lady Mary falls in love with him, but once rescued the group returns to conventional social roles.
At a dinner party Leonora is presented as a chameleon who embodies seven women. The comic court proceeding that follows concerns a man she pushed from a train after he refused to close a window for her sick daughter; she is ultimately acquitted.
After Luddite unrest in the Scottish town of Thrums, young minister Gavin Dishart falls for Lady Babbie, daughter of the local landowner, while she disguises herself as a Romany to aid the weavers. A hostile army captain seeks to punish her and the townspeople, but his schemes lead to Dishart and Babbie’s marriage.
Mrs. Dowey pretends to her fellow charwomen that she has a son serving in the army, using a name she saw in a newspaper. When Private Kenneth Dowey returns on leave, his lack of family and her invented motherhood draw the lonely soldier and charwoman into a tender bond.
Told from Wendy Darling’s perspective, this reworking sends her and her brothers with Peter Pan and Tinker Bell to Neverland, where they meet the Lost Boys and battle Captain Hook. It explores darker elements of Barrie’s story and adds a fourth Darling child, Tom.
After Colonel and Mrs. Grey return from India, their children struggle to connect with their mother. Amy’s theatrical fantasies lead her to mistake her mother’s affectionate friendship with Stephen Rollo for an affair, creating a chain of misunderstandings before the family reconciles.
The theme of the play is whether it would benefit people if they could have their lives over again and make different choices. The characters consist of dissatisfied couples, who all feel that they have taken the wrong turning in life. They are brought together to the house of an ancient individual bearing the Shakespearean name of Lob, who is described as "all that is left of Merry England". In Act 3 the characters return to reality, having benefited to varying degrees from their experiences in the wood in Act 2. The butler resigns himself to domestic service rather than high finance; the philanderer is mortified but predicts he will be unable to reform; an elderly man who had longed for a second youth proposes again to his faithful spouse; the artist and his wife are reconciled, and the dream child of Act 2 has become almost real to both of them and lives on in their hearts.
At a girls’ school near Oxford, the supposedly virtuous Jane Annie disrupts Bab’s attempt to elope and wins a conduct prize. She then uses hypnotism to arrange romantic pairings and to get the headmistress, proctor, and students to approve an end-of-term celebration and the couples’ escape.
Wendy Darling appears in an in-the-round adaptation of Peter Pan, performed inside a purpose-built pavilion with 360-degree video projections surrounding the audience.
Peter Pan, a boy who refuses to grow up, takes Wendy and her younger brothers to Neverland, where they join the Lost Boys and face Captain Hook and his pirates. After their adventures, Wendy and the boys return to their parents, while Peter declines the offer to stay with the family.
The play is set in Napoleonic times. Act 1 There is heightened anticipation as the local gossips of the town discuss the developing relationship between Miss Phoebe Throssel and Valentine Brown. Phoebe then confesses to her sister, Susan, that Brown intends to drop by later that day, and both are certain he means to propose. When he finally does appear, it is not to ask for Phoebe's hand in marriage but to announce his intention to join the fight in Europe against Napoleon. This leaves the girls devastated. Act 2 Ten years after the departure of Brown, we find the girls have set up a school in order to pay the rent. Phoebe has not accepted any other suitor and has allowed herself to become an "Old Maid" and school mistress. Phoebe, however, longs for her youth, and the return of Captain Brown only deepens her melancholy. "I am tired of being lady-like," she declares. With some encouragement from her maid, Patty, she creates the fictional character of Miss Livvy, a more energetic, flirtatious and naughty version of her younger self, and begins to tease Captain Brown who, captivated by her, persuades her and Susan to accompany him to the ball. Act 3 At the ball, and Phoebe is still playing the part of Miss Livvy. In this guise, she has captured the eyes of many of the young men and the scorn of ladies. However, Phoebe is now annoyed that Brown seems to prefer this unsubstantial 'young' flirt that she has created to her true personality and qualities. Her actions cause events to come to a head as her act is almost brought to light by the local gossiping girls Fanny Willoughby and Henrietta Turnbull. In a final confrontation with Captain Brown, we discover that he has found his love for Miss Phoebe and not for Miss Livvy, as he insists that "I have discovered for myself that the schoolmistress in her old maid's cap is the noblest Miss Phoebe of them all." Act 4 Miss Livvy still hangs heavy over the sisters: having been created, she is now difficult to dispose of. The local gossips watch for any sign of Miss Livvy and frequently visit the sisters' home. Brown comes to ask for Phoebe’s hand and is turned down without explanation. As a result, he becomes aware of the disguise and the sisters' plight and sets out to right all wrongs, even his own.
After a family of aristocrats and their servants are shipwrecked, the practical butler Crichton becomes the island's leader while his former masters become his subjects. Lady Mary falls in love with him, but once rescued the group returns to conventional social roles.
At a dinner party Leonora is presented as a chameleon who embodies seven women. The comic court proceeding that follows concerns a man she pushed from a train after he refused to close a window for her sick daughter; she is ultimately acquitted.
After Luddite unrest in the Scottish town of Thrums, young minister Gavin Dishart falls for Lady Babbie, daughter of the local landowner, while she disguises herself as a Romany to aid the weavers. A hostile army captain seeks to punish her and the townspeople, but his schemes lead to Dishart and Babbie’s marriage.
Mrs. Dowey pretends to her fellow charwomen that she has a son serving in the army, using a name she saw in a newspaper. When Private Kenneth Dowey returns on leave, his lack of family and her invented motherhood draw the lonely soldier and charwoman into a tender bond.
Told from Wendy Darling’s perspective, this reworking sends her and her brothers with Peter Pan and Tinker Bell to Neverland, where they meet the Lost Boys and battle Captain Hook. It explores darker elements of Barrie’s story and adds a fourth Darling child, Tom.