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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 BarrieProducer:
Pitlochry Festival TheatreDirector:
Richard BaronDesign:
Neil WarmingtonCostume:
Neil WarmingtonLighting:
Wayne DowdeswellStage Manager(s):
Kay Hesford,
Maggi Lindsay (deputy stage manager),
Heather Saunderson (assistant stage manager)