Learn to fly with Peter Pan
Mon, Nov 29
|Culture and event company Velber
Closed event
Zeit & Ort
Nov 29, 2021, 9:00 AM
Culture and event company Velber, Oststrasse 20, 42551 Velbert, Germany
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One night, Wendy is awakened by a loud banging in her room. She discovers Peter Pan, the boy who will never grow up and can't remember anything. His ignorance and arrogance fascinate her. Wendy follows him, leaving the safety of her home and travels to the lost boys in Neverland - to pirates and adventure. Peter wishes a »nice, motherly person«. But does Wendy want to be that? In the end, Peter will need them in the fight against the cruel Captain Hook...
Learning to Fly with Peter Pan is an adaptation of the novel »Peter Pan« by JM Barrie. Three actors in 12 different roles together with a musician and percussionists tell this story fast, entertaining and thoughtful._cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf5cfEverybody knows Peter Pan. But few know the novel. This book is filled with imagination, humor and wisdom. And - as usual in 1904 - full of clichés.
The BrilLe Theater dug deep into this template, blown down a little dust and created a play version that focuses on a universal force: motherhood. It is a »Coming of age« story, which through its symbolic power can be an escort on the way to adultness - an adulthood that does not forget the existence of Neverland and um_cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_knows the healing power of motherly love in one's own heart.