Behind the scenes of Peter and the Starcatcher

The Canberra Times

The smash hit Broadway production and winner of five Tony Awards, Peter and the Starcatcher is set to make its Australian debut in Canberra next year.

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Peter and the Starcatcher is the prequel to Peter Pan.

00:06 So it's the story before the story that we all know

00:09 about how Peter, who in this story is a nameless boy,

00:13 came to be the famous boy who never grew up.

00:16 - This is the first time that Peter and the Starcatcher

00:19 has ever been staged in Australia.

00:21 It's a very successful Broadway production

00:23 that's toured all over America

00:25 and Dead Puppet Society is lending our stage magic

00:28 to this production for the first time.

00:31 - Ultimately, Peter and the Starcatcher is a story

00:34 about the telling of stories.

00:36 And one of the things that's so compelling about this work

00:38 is the sheer variety of forms that are used within it.

00:41 - The actors really have to play many different roles.

00:45 You know, sometimes the actors are narrators,

00:48 sometimes they're sailors on a ship,

00:50 sometimes they're bodies of water.

00:52 And I feel like the movement in so many different ways

00:56 helps us move between these different worlds

00:59 and these different characters,

01:00 which I think adds to the magic of the show.

01:03 - Taking Wayne Barker's original music

01:06 and expanding it for the larger force of musicians

01:09 that we have.

01:10 So fun to be actually in the middle of the action

01:12 instead of off in a pit.

01:13 Part of that is integrating the music more into the action.

01:16 Like I'm on stage for most of the show.

01:19 - The lighting's fascinating because it brings up night sky.

01:24 It brings up ideas of stars.

01:27 It brings up a whole lot of ideas

01:28 that directly relate to light.

01:30 Having the opportunity to be there

01:32 sort of from the start of how the design's evolving

01:35 and how the show's coming about

01:37 is a really unique and amazing thing.

01:39 - We've really picked up the playfulness

01:41 and the joy of the telling of stories

01:43 that's inherent in this script

01:45 and are throwing pretty much everything we've got

01:48 in our theater making toolkit at it.

01:50 Audiences can expect a night of fun,

01:52 a very touching story about two kids falling in love.

01:56 Beautiful creature puppets.

01:57 - It's magical.

01:59 - It's for anybody that has an imagination.

02:01 - An experience for an audience

02:02 which is literally gonna take them to another world.

02:05 (upbeat music)

02:07 (upbeat music)

02:10 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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