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

Valerie Cutko (Mrs. Otery), Alan Mirren (Mr. Cameron), Sara Clark-Downie (Mrs. Morland), Irene Allan (Mrs. Morland), Ian Marr (Mr. Morland), Alan Steele (J.M. Barrie), Elliot Fitzpatrick (Harry Morland Blake)

Creatives/Company

Author: J M Barrie
Producer: Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Director: Richard Baron
Design: Neil Warmington
Costume: Neil Warmington
Lighting: Wayne Dowdeswell
Stage Manager(s): Kay Hesford, Maggi Lindsay (deputy stage manager), Heather Saunderson (assistant stage manager)