PETER PAN
in a new version by Roddy Doyle
Gate Theatre Dublin
November 2023
Director: Ned Bennett
Set Designer: Niall McKeever
Costume Designer: Katie Davenport
Lighting Designer: Sarah Jane Shiels
Sound Designer: Johnny Edwards
Composer: Stefan French
Casting Director: Amy Rowan
Movement Director: Jonah McGreevy
Puppet Director: Sarah Mardel
Puppet Designer/Maker: Caroline Bowman
Associate Lighting Designer: Matt Burke
Assistant Movement: Director Anja Nicholson
Poster artwork by Katie Davenport
Photography by Ros Kavanagh
'Against the marvellous backdrop of Niall McKeever’s set design, Ned Bennett, the director, has staged a complex, physical production that requires not just a movement director, in Jonah McGreevy, but also a puppet director (Sarah Mardel), puppet designer (Caroline Bowman) and team of puppet-makers, as well as a large crew of dressers and stage, lighting and sound technicians '
'...Manipulated tyres, mattresses, sheets and bath tubs plant the production in old world rough housing with its tumbling, physical playfulness. Making the flying sequences so much more alive for digitally doing so much less. Under Bennett’s direction, Neverland is a childhood wonderland. A colouring book of fun, flawed, fantasticalness. Allowing imagination, or memory, to fill in the gaps'