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Director’s Note

Welcome to our attic. A place where dust gathers, memories linger, and stories wait patiently to be remembered—where imagination still whispers louder than reason.

I don’t know when Peter Pan first found me. Maybe it was Mary Martin flying across a the television screen. Maybe it was the first time I watched performers rise into the air and felt my heart lift with them. Maybe it was Disney, or a story read long ago. However it arrived, it never truly left and I love it.

The idea of never growing up feels magical—because childhood itself is magical. When we are young, the world is limitless. A single afternoon can hold a grand adventure, a royal ball, or a quiet tea party. Imagination makes the rules, and nothing stands in the way.

But tucked quietly inside this story is a deeper truth. “To live would be an awfully big adventure.” Growing up is not the loss of wonder; it is the risk of choosing it. Even Peter, who resists time with such determination, seems to understand that living fully requires its own kind of bravery. We don’t lose the magic when we grow older—we simply learn to recognize it differently: in memory, in choice, in the courage to keep believing and have happy thoughts.

In Peter/Wendy, playwright Jeremy Bloom draws from J.M. Barrie’s The White Bird and Peter Pan, returning us to a quieter, darker root of a story reshaped again and again. This is another layer of the legend of the boy who wouldn’t grow up—and perhaps a reminder that the magic is not gone. It is only waiting for us to look for it.

Think Happy Thoughts,
Dana