PETER PAN
Added on: 17th Jan 2016
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.
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