Peter Pan

2023

Țăndărică Animation Theatre Bucharest

https://www.teatrultandarica.ro/peter-pan/

DIRECTOR, TEXT, SET DESIGN Irina Alexandra Banea

PUPPET CONSTRUCTION Daniel Stamate

COSTUMES Maria Ștefănescu

LIGHT DESIGN Andrei Delczeg

CAST Mona TONCU, Gabi APOSTOL, Liliana GAVRILESCU, Ioana CHELARU, Cristina ȚANE, Adrian LEFTER, Ioan PĂDURARU

On an evening like any other, on a night that feels too short for the many adventures it could hold, on a night when darkness unsettles children with its presence that dictates sleep, the three siblings—Wendy, John, and Michael—set out on an adventure unlike any other: they will take the Moon down from the sky. How?! Just as Peter taught them: they will dream of what they truly desire and fly toward the Moon, seize it, and carry it away to hide it in the Neverland, the Land Without Time.

Within a “raw” set design—symbolic and abstract in its outlines, like a child’s precise drawing unfold stage pictures that are at once enigmatic and playful, profound and dreamlike. In this setting, where fantastical and realistic worlds coexist, the scenes come alive with hyper-realistic puppets that fly and gaze sharply, as only children can, alongside fantastical masks and games of light and reflection. Peter Pan becomes a space of perceptions, resonances, and reconstructions—a prism of adventures, gestures, and colors.