London’s spectacular new production of Peter Pan has extended its run at Kensington Gardens due to public demand and will now run until 13 September.
The new re-telling of JM Barrie’s classic children’s tale, which is staged inside a specially erected £1 million tented pavilion, was originally due to close at the end of August.
Featuring a 360 degree projected design, Peter Pan tells the story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up and his adventures in Neverland with the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael.
Kensington Gardens has proved a fitting home for the play, since it was the venue for Barrie’s first meeting with the Llewelyn Davies family, who inspired his most famous creation.
The new London production, which stars Ciaran Kellgren as Peter Pan and Jonathan Hyde as Captain Hook, has proved so successful that following its run in the capital it is to embark on a 12-month tour of North America. A second production will also be launched in New Zealand in 2011 to tour the Far East.
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