One of the interesting things to report back is just how much of the story doesn’t focus on the boy who will become Peter Pan. The play, after all, is called Peter and the Starcatcher. Rick Elice’s play is based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson and comes with a built-in elevator pitch: it’s a Peter Pan origin story. They’re perfectly happy to be going through the story on their own that there are others in the room seems incidental. While watching the production, you occasionally get the feeling that the actors don’t even really need you to be there. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during the rehearsal process just to soak up some of the residual energy, because it seems that everyone involved probably had the time of their life putting the show together. More than any play I’ve recently seen, you come into the performance space and sense that these actors are here to tell a story, and God damn it, they’re going to tell that story come hell or high water. Once the play properly kicks off, it’s packed with so much material and moves at such a breakneck pace, that no matter what else you think of the production, you have to admire the amount of zeal and stamina that the actors are generating. If you come to Hub Theatre Company’s production of Peter and the Starcatcher be prepared to see the actors sweat. Based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson.

Peter and the Starcatcher is producted by Hub Theatre Company.

Peter and the Starcatcher – Hub Theatre Company

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