Monday, November 16, 2015

Peter Pan: a awkward tale

Let me say right off the bat that I didn't hate this play or the performances of any of the actors. It was not the worst thing I've ever seen but it did have its failings. Overall the play had a good cast, the production value was lacking of course and the script left a lot to be desired. It's run time was satisfactory, I didn't feel as if I was there forever and it wasn't too short though I did start to get anxious towards the end.
       The cast of charaters in the play had a variety of performances ranging from good to very poor, no one in the play was terrible I feel though the weren't really putting effort into their roles and no one was excellent. Even Charlotte who was the best actor felt  flat at times and preformed way better as the mother then as a pirate. Peter Pan was played by areon who's preformance was mixed as well, at times I felt she did somewhat well with her role and others just seems as she was playing herself.  Wendy played by vepca who I felt was good at her role but it wasn't a strong performance. The brothers played by maddy and whoever were ok, the older brother being the better then maddies performance. Maddy's performance was simply talking like herself without having any emotions to her lines and it was rather annoying and detracted from the entire experience, it didn't help that her voice is grating. The side charaters such as the lost boys, the extra pirates and the Indians were all done well for what they were.
         The production value of the play was of course cheap but it was creative for what they did, I felt however that the visual representation of tinker bell wasn't neccisary and the alligator was more humous then scary and was a bit underwhelming. The sets were good for what hey had to work with and nice enough so it didn't take away from the experience.
         The script for this play was horrible, they said it was supposed to be "darker" but ended up having way to much redundant dialogue and failed humor. The dialogue is one of the main reasons I'm not faulting anyone for weak performances because it is honestly one of the worst attempts to recreate human speech that I've ever seen. It was like watching a chat bot try and pretend to be human . I however thought that the Pirates had the best lines especially the villain Captain Hook and that the interaction between the Pirates and Peter Pan at the lagoon while dumb and corny was actually kinda funny. To recap this play was nowhere near good but it was ok and I give it 6/10.

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