Review: ATC/Nightsong's 'Peter Pan' is fantastical fun, but a little slow

Review: ATC/Nightsong's 'Peter Pan' is fantastical fun, but a little slow
Peter Pan. (Image: Supplied)
Ben Moore
J M Barrie’s original character has seen many iterations over the years.Disney’s Peter Pan was a favourite of mine as a child. I often watched it several times when I was home sick from school.Of course, by today’s standards, that film is a misogynistic and racist mess, but that little bit of fairy magic it loaned me in those days will always stay with me.As I grew older, Steven Spielberg’s version of Hook became another tape that spent a lot of time in the VCR.My point is that I was very excited to s...

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