Peter and the Starcatcher
Category: Event Calendar
Dates and Times for this Past Event
- Sunday, Apr 21, 2024 2:30pm
- Saturday, Apr 20, 2024 2:30pm
- Saturday, Apr 20, 2024 7:30pm
- Friday, Apr 19, 2024 7:30pm
- Thursday, Apr 18, 2024 7:30pm
- Sunday, Apr 14, 2024 2:30pm
- Saturday, Apr 13, 2024 2:30pm
- Saturday, Apr 13, 2024 7:30pm
- Friday, Apr 12, 2024 7:30pm
- Thursday, Apr 11, 2024 7:30pm
- Sunday, Apr 7, 2024 2:30pm
- Saturday, Apr 6, 2024 7:30pm
Location
Mesa Arts Center
1 E Main St
Details
Presented by Mesa Encore Theatre
Peter and the Star Catcher is a prequel to Peter Pan based on the children’s book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson and freely adapted for the stage by Rick Elice, with co-directors Alex Timbers and Roger Rees. For two-and-a-half hours, twelve actors make theatrical magic by playing dozens of characters: sailors, pirates, British naval officers, Mollusk natives and orphans in addition to eighteen major roles. The original Broadway production was a deliberately low-budget spectacle: an extravaganza of staging that relied on suggestion and storytelling rather than expensive set pieces like the chandelier in Phantom of the Opera or the helicopter in Miss Saigon. Elice’s script, jam-packed with poetry, fart jokes, gentle lyricism, and numerous nods to pop culture, is a coming-of-age adventure story about how a nameless orphan -- inspired by a remarkable and ambitious girl -- became the strange and celebrated hero that is the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up.
Credit: Stage Agent
