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itemprop="description"> <p>Following the well-recieved 'Jane Eyre', director Sally Cookson brings her original production of 'Peter Pan' to the National Theatre, after a sell-out run at Bristol Old Vic</p> </div> <span class="stars stars-4" itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating"> <span itemprop="ratingValue" class="hidden">4</span> <span class="icon-star"></span> <span class="icon-star"></span> <span class="icon-star"></span> <span class="icon-star"></span> <span class="icon-star"></span> </span> <ul class="caption meta inline-pipes-list"> <li class="author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <span itemprop="name"><a href="/web/20161205195048/http://www.independent.co.uk/author/paul-taylor" title="Paul Taylor" itemprop="sameAs">Paul Taylor</a></span> </li> <li title="5 December 2016 11:01 London"><time data-microtimes="{"published":"1480935700000","display":0,"changed":"1480935700000"}" datetime="11:01, 5 December 2016" 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The Lost Boys are scavengers, clutching their teddies, in a world where bicycle pumps can become pretend walkie talkies, tin cans a telephone and scraps of corrugated iron the body of the Hook-hungry crocodile. The production sweeps aside the traditional Edwardian bric-a-brac in favour of an aesthetic that's barer and 1970s in feel. Peter pedals about on a Chopper bike; the place resounds to reggae beat; a Carpenters' number provides the accompaniment to the show's loveliest sequence. But director Sally Cookson's account – which began life at the Bristol four years ago and now re-emerges as the National's family Christmas in this revised version, devised by the Companies – remains remarkably true to the spirit of J M Barrie's original. </p> <p>I don't think that I have seen the cross-over appeal of the piece, with its uncanny ability to enter into a child's love of adventure and its melancholy awareness of the penalties of refusing to grow up, communicated more powerfully. The production ups the ante on what its playful and what is piercing. It augments the sense of magic that the flying scenes draw witty attention to the stage-craft involved, as the characters attach themselves to harnesses and are hoisted upwards or swing out over the stalls assisted by crew members who swarm over the scaffolding at the sides to act as counterweights. Saturday nights at the Lost Boys' den become a cheeky nod to Strictly: Peter and Wendy start off shuffling awkwardly to 'Close To You' and then rise elatingly to the occasion in lyrical airborne lunges at each other. </p> <p>At the same time, Cookson offers penetrating psychological touches. With his spiky hair and bottle green Drop Dead Fred-style suit, Paul Hilton excellent Pan radiates cocky charisma and a certain sulky desperation. The arrested adolescent look deepens our appreciation of how undeveloped Peter is emotionally. He narks Madeleine Worrall's fine Wendy by his inability to see that there might be a serious side to their adult make-believe. When he refuses to join the mooted expedition back to London, he curls up miserably in the skip of a left-over pram, hurling out the pile of teddy bears to make room in defensive fury. </p> <p>In this version's most audacious and suggestive stroke, there's a female Captain Hook who is doubled with Mrs Darling. Standing in for Sophie Thompson who broke her wrist during rehearsal, Anna Francolini is a magnificently frightening and pathetic crone with black wig concealing baldness, jewelled teeth, no compunction about slitting the stomach of a teddy-harbouring pirate and a warped obsession with Pan whom she pronounces 'scrummy' when she gazes upon his sleeping form. It's a twist that emphasises how fiercely Peter is opposed to the idea of mothers and their demands – the maternal principle is his deadliest enemy – and here there's an interpolation from the later story <em>Peter Pan</em> in Kensington Gardens that goes some way towards explaining why. 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