Details

A deeply unsettling play about the abduction of a girl in 1890 and her reappearance twenty-five years later. When Barrie came to write Mary Rose in the aftermath of WW1, his own awareness of a tragic tension between time and timelessness had become a nation's. The play examines a central nerve at the time of children not returning or missing presumed dead and touches on many of Barrie's obsessions; the loss of innocence, eternal youth and the tricks of time. Described as a play about the happy anguish of peace, this is a spiritual, deeply disturbing piece. The Great War is over. A soldier returns to his childhood home. It is derelict. As he sits in silence, Time dissolves and 'the crafty work begins'. Mary Rose has been described as a much darker companion to Peter Pan. Peter it will be remembered, would not grow up. Mary Rose cannot.

Cast/Performers

Eileen Battye (Mrs Morland), Eilidh Macdonald (Mary Rose), David Delve (Mr Morland), Michael Thomson (Cameron), Janet Michael (Mrs Otrey), Andrew Watson (Harry), Kern Falconer (Mr Amy), Mark Dexter (Simon)

Creatives/Company

Author: J M Barrie
Producer: Nottingham Playhouse
Director: Richard Baron
Design: Edward Lipscomb
Lighting: Mark Pritchard