Date premiered 10 December 2013 Genre Comedy Playwright J. M. Barrie | Original language English First performance 10 December 2013 | |
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Peter pan goes wrong trailer
Peter Pan Goes Wrong is a play by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of the Mischief Theatre Company (creators of The Play That Goes Wrong). Like The Play That Goes Wrong, the characters and members of the fictitious Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society present their production of the J.M. Barrie classic Peter Pan.
Contents
- Peter pan goes wrong trailer
- Peter pan goes wrong returns to the west end
- Production history
- Reception
- Television special
- References
The production is presented with permission from Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, who benefit from royalties of the play, in accordance to the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 which granted them a right to royalty in perpetuity from adaptations of the story of Peter Pan on stage, publication and film in the UK.
Peter pan goes wrong returns to the west end
Production history
The play made its world premiere at the Pleasance Theatre in London in December 2013 before touring the UK in 2014. The production transferred to the West End in London at the Apollo Theatre for a Christmas season run in 2015. It featured the original cast of The Play That Goes Wrong.
It returned to the Apollo Theatre the following year for another Christmas season run from October 2016 making it the third show running in the West End from the Mischief Theatre Company after The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery.
Reception
Like The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong received positive reviews.
The original West End run was nominated for the 2016 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy (awarded to Mischief Theatre Company the previous year for The Play That Goes Wrong) but lost to Nell Gwynn.
Television special
The play was adapted for a one hour television special which was broadcast on 31 December 2016 on BBC One. It featured the original cast and guest starred David Suchet as the narrator.