A Note From The Director
I saw Peter and the Starcatcher in NY several years ago, and was immediately taken by the energy of a company of enthusiastic performers who appeared to be having a blast. They jumped from character to character to tell a complex story with only the aid of a bunch of boxes and a few ropes. It almost seemed like they were making it up as they went along, using whatever items they’d found lying around – and it looked like so much fun.
We wanted to create something like that here in Montclair, so we assembled our own company of misfits, odds & ends, bluestockings and lost boys, and decided to take that feeling of improvisational immediacy a step further. So for today’s performance, we sneak our eccentric company into a found space -- a halfway-dismantled stage-set for a previous show. And we look around, repurpose what we find, unload our trunks, and then attempt to flash-perform our story… before somebody catches us.
This Peter origin story, which takes a boy from a dour lost soul to the embodiment of youthful, careless, imaginative play, feels like just the right, chaotic vehicle for this kind of “theater-on-the-fly.” So please, wish us luck, enjoy the flight… and clap if you believe…
~John AC Kennedy
