New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeLiving is an awfully big adventure, suggests Theresa Heskins's upbeat version of JM Barrie's play, which downplays the dark heart of this malleable masterpiece, and Peter's insistence that dying will be an awfully big adventure. Indeed, Neverland looks like a giant children's playground, a fantasy of slides and swings. That's not to say this production doesn't have sly emotional depths as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PM on January 4, 2011