For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday
Mainstage Theater
Written by
Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Les Waters
New York premiere
Ann
I took off my green tights. But before I went home, I stayed in the theater for a little while longer. Where you don’t have to grow up.
Playing Peter Pan at her hometown children’s theater is one of Ann’s fondest, most formative memories. Now, 50 years later, Neverland calls again, casting her and her siblings back to this faraway dreamscape where the refusal to grow up confronts the inevitability of growing old. In her highly anticipated return to Playwrights, Sarah Ruhl conjures a tender, yearning tale that flies in the face of time, in the search for a second youth.
Special thanks to the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater for its generous support of this production.
“A sweet spot for Sarah Ruhl. Pairing philosophical daring and surreal tenderness.”
— Jesse Green, The New York Times“Another role for the legendary Kathleen Chalfant to inhabit with gusto and intelligence.”
— Hilton Als, The New Yorker