PETER PAN

THE COLOUR THAT PETER IS ASSOCIATED WITH

IS GREEN, BUT PETER PAN TRADITIONALLY WEARS

A SUIT MADE OF LEAVES, WHICH BRINGS OUT

DIFFERENT SHADES OF AUBURN, BROWN,

TAN AND ORANGE.

THE FIRST PERSON TO EVER TAKE ON THE ROLE OF

PETER PAN WAS ENGLISH ACTRESS, NINA BOUCICAULT.

AT AGE 37, SHE LED AUDIENCES TO NEVERLAND FOR

THE FIRST TIME IN 1904. SINCE THEN, IT HAS BECOME A

TRADITION FOR A FEMALE TO PLAY THE PART OF

THE TITULAR CHARACTER.

BOUCICAULT ONLY PLAYED THE ROLE FOR A YEAR,

BUT SOME ACTRESSES JUST CAN’T GIVE IT UP.

CATHY RIGBY PLAYED THE PART OF PETER FROM 1973

ALL THE WAY UNTIL 2013, WHEN SHE WAS SIXTY

YEARS OLD! TALK ABOUT DEDICATION!

CAPTAIN HOOK IS NOT THE ACTUAL NAME OF THE S

TORY’S ANTAGONIST. BARRIE WRITES IN THE BOOK

THAT “TO REVEAL WHO HE REALLY WAS WOULD

EVEN AT THIS DATE SET THE COUNTRY IN A BLAZE.”

WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT HE ATTENDED ETON

COLLEGE IN ENGLAND AND IS SAID TO BE ONE OF THE

MOST GENTLEMANLY PIRATES TO EVER SAIL THE SEAS.

EVEN THOUGH HOOK IS KILLED OFF IN MOST ADAPTATIONS

OF THE STORY, WALT DISNEY INSISTED ON KEEPING HIM

ALIVE IN THE 1953 CARTOON. AND NO, IT WASN’T

BECAUSE IT WAS A KID’S MOVIE. ACTUALLY,

DISNEY PREDICTED THAT THE AUDIENCE WOULD BECOME

TOO ATTACHED TO THE CHARACTER THAT THEY

HAD RE-ENVISIONED AND WOULDN’T WANT TO SEE HIM

MEET HIS END. AS IT LATER TURNED OUT, HE WAS

CORRECT! AUDIENCES LOVED AND STILL LOVE

DISNEY’S CAPTAIN HOOK!

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, THE AUTHOR OF TREASURE

ISLAND, KNEW JM BARRIE AND BARRIE CONFIRMED THAT

AT ONE POINT DURING HIS ADVENTURES, THE NOTORIOUS

CAPTAIN HOOK CROSSED PATHS WITH THE FEARED

LONG JOHN SILVER.

PETER PAN APPEARED BEFORE HIS OWN STORY.

THE CHARACTER WAS FIRST SEEN IN ANOTHER ONE OF

JM BARRIE’S NOVELS, THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD. THIS

BOOK WAS WRITTEN IN 1902, TWO YEARS BEFORE

THE PETER PAN STAGE PLAY.

EVEN THOUGH PETER IS THE MOST HEROIC CHARACTER,

WENDY IS OFTEN SEEN AS THE STORY’S MAIN PROTAGONIST.

SOME CRITICS SEE HER AS A YOUNG HEROINE WHO

ACTUALLY SAVED ALL OF THE LOST BOYS FROM

THEMSELVES AND PETER.