Peter Pan

This pantomime version of the well known story was adapted for the society by the Director and so played to the strengths of the large cast beautifully. Catriona Macdonald as Peter Pan played the part with just the right mix of daydreaming and thigh-slapping bravado and interacted well with Ailsa Mackintosh’s sweet portrayal of Wendy Darling. Andrew Cameron’s Captain Hook was suitably overbearing and eminently boo-able and was ably assisted in his dastardly deeds by Emily Esson’s Smee. Also in his crew were Mainsail and Rigging, played by Kirsty Lockhart and Pete Smith respectively, whose comic antics had the audience in stitches. Garry Brindley as the toyshop owner Dotty Darling, was truly outrageous and the song and dance routine with Russell Adams’s Chief Passingwater, to Love Is In The Air, had everyone in fits of laughter and with tears running down their faces!  Andrew Dart played the ever-so-proper John Darling well and his romancing of Mary Miller’s Tiger Lily was delightful. Assisting with Hook’s downfall were two wonderfully doric–sounding comic rats Bubonic and Plague played by Freda Adams and Liz Forrest and his nemesis the Crocodile played with a lovely welsh accent by Tim Roberts. Flitting in and out of all the action was Olivia Park as a beautiful Tinkerbell. The large chorus of, at various times, pirates, townspeople and Red Indians moved and sang well. The sets were bright and colourful and I particularly liked the use of an extension to the front of the stage as the lagoon from which the Crocodile made his entrances. The hard work put in by the cast, crew and production team shone through and once again the Ury Players gave the local community an excellent evening’s entertainment.

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