A Play by RICK ELICE Based on the novel by DAVE BARRY and RIDLEY PEARSON Music by WAYNE BARKER
November 27 to December 6, 2014 - SAGEBRUSH THEATRE
THE NEVERLAND YOU NEVER KNEW - An evening of madcap fun! This swashbuckling prequel to Peter Pan will have you hooked with the tale of how Peter Pan became The Boy Who Never Grew Up. In this Tony Award winning play, a dozen actors play dozens of unforgettable characters, using their enormous talent, ingenious stagecraft and the limitless possibilities of the imagination.
Captain Scott: Michael Blake Black Stache: Evan Buliung Lord Aster: Rejean Cournoyer Mrs. Bumbrake/Teacher: Andrew Cownden Ted: Stephen Jackman-Torkoff Boy: Andrew Kushnir Molly: Holly Lewis Prentiss: Amitai Marmorstein Slank/Hawking Clam: Thom Marriott Smee: Mike Nadajewski Grempkin/Mack/Sanchez/Fighting Prawn: Leon Willey Alf: Daniel Williston
Nick Apivor Christina Cuiglietta
Director: Daryl Cloran Musical Director: Christina Cuiglietta Set and Costume Designer: Cory Sincennes Lighting Designer: Michael Walton Sound Designer: Cayman Duncan Sound Engineer: Greg Klohn Choreographer: Valerie Easton Fight Director: Nick Harrison Assistant Director: Heather Cant Stage Manager: Krista Blackwood Assistant Stage Manager: Skylar Nakazawa Apprentice Stage Manager: Christine Leroux
Neverland backstory to be nationally premiered in Kamloops Kamloops This Week - November 21, 2014
When Daryl Cloran decided he wanted to bring Peter and the Starcatcher to Sagebrush Theatre for the Christmas season, he was faced with some Peter Pan-worthy challenges — like finding the people to approach to see if he could get the rights. Then, after a lot of Internet searching to locate them, convincing them Kamloops was the absolute most perfect place to give the award-winning family play its Canadian premiere.... >More
Set a mini ‘dollhouse’ Follows the Kamloops This Week story above
Cory Sincennes [Set and Costume Designer] had his own vision as he planned the set for Peter and the Starcatcher. After researching the etchings and pictures that illustrated the original J.M. Barrie book, Peter and Wendy, he knew he wanted a look that reflected the Victorian era of Peter Pan’s childhood, but also incorporated the nautical setting of the play... >More
Effortless Flights of Fancy By Ben Bradley, New York Times
"...“Peter” is all about storytelling as a lively (and live) art, and the energized complicity that’s forged between the teller and the listener.
"...The story simultaneously being told and celebrated is as elaborate, simple, cozy and scary as the best bedtime stories are. Its elements include an ocean voyage, a shipwreck, a cargo of something called stardust, a blissful Edwardian chorus line of singing mermaids and three orphans (sold to a dastardly seaman for sinister purposes) who have never seen the light of day before. The unhappiest of these lads doesn’t even have a name to call his own.
"...I suppose you could say that “Peter” is a coming-of-age tale about how Boy comes into his extraordinariness. But it’s equally about our willingness, with the help of some highly skilled guides, to accept the extraordinary, to will ourselves into believing that what the actors tell us is happening is really happening."
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A Little Night Music The New York Times
"...a larky séance with Barrie’s mythic characters: part pantomime, part story theatre, and all delight.
"...the audience and the characters are carried, with a snap of the fingers and a change of the lights, into the eternal present of make-believe."
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Glossary for Peter and the Starcatcher - compiled by WCT Associate Artistic Director Heather Cant