Peter Pan

Adapted by Ryan J. Furlong Based on the work of J.M. Barrie

CAST
Peter: The youthful hero Wendy: The kind-hearted child
Hook: The dastardly buccaneerSmee: Hook’s right- or rather, left-hand-man

ACT 1 Scene 1
NARRATOR: WENDY’s home, primarily on the roof. A window frame sits near center stage.
Stage right shows a portion of WENDY’s room, with the foot of her bed visible. The dark of
night shrouds the stage. All that shines are the stars in the night sky. From the darkness
comes the voice of PETER.

PETER: All children, except one, grow up.

PETER: I know I heard that once, somewhere. Hmm.
PETER: Oh! Hello! I should probably introduce myself, huh? I’m Peter! I’m from Neverland.
You’re probably wondering what I’m doing all the way here in Bloomsbury. Well, I like to come
by at night and listen to the bedtime stories told in this house, but I was seen last time I came
by. I lost my shadow here... I’m still trying to get it back.
PETER: (In a hushed tone.) Gosh, it’s sure dark in here. I won’t be able to tell my shadow
apart from the walls or the floor. Tinker Bell? Could you lend a hand?

PETER: Tinker Bell’s a fairy. She may be too tiny to see, but her heart is one of the biggest
there is!

ACT 1 SCENE 2
WENDY: Peter Pan! How wonderful it is to meet you! You have your shadow back, Peter! I
knew it must be yours! Oh, how I do wish you would stay here for a bit longer. I thought I’d
never get to see you; I must grow up tomorrow.
PETER: Wendy! You don’t have to grow up! Come! Come with me, we can go to Neverland
together! You can be our mother! The mother of me and my friends! Come, come, let’s go!
WENDY: Well... I... I mustn’t be gone too terribly long, okay?
PETER: Not too terribly long? There’s too terribly much to do! Come on, let’s go to Neverland!
(Both PETER and WENDY exit.)

ACT 2 Scene 1
A small and quiet area in the forests of Neverland. A couple chairs, a table with kitchenware,
and a small bed/bedroll. Quite a lot of time has passed since the previous scene. WENDY sits
alone, looking at a pocket watch. The watch makes a quiet ticking noise.)

WENDY: Time certainly seems to be moving quickly here. I wonder just how long I have been
away from home. I hope my family isn’t terribly worried about me.

WENDY: This place, Neverland, is filled with strange creatures and characters. Beasts,
fairies, pirates, and more? It’s all rather bizarre to me. But Peter’s friends, the Lost Boys, they
are all so very kind. They keep talking about a dastardly villain named Captain Hook. He
sounds like quite the rotten character. They said his left hand was bitten off by a crocodile,
and he replaced that hand with a hook! That explains the name, I suppose. What a strange
place.
NARRATOR: (WENDY lies down on her bed. She begins to drift to sleep.)
WENDY: I hope tomorrow holds the same fun and joy as today. (WENDY yawns. She falls
asleep.)

ACT 2 Scene 2
PETER: Wendy! How are you... Wendy? Wendy?
NARRATOR: (PETER is beginning to worry.)
PETER: Wendy, where did ya go?
NARRATOR: (PETER looks through the mess of her room. He discovers a mysterious
scratch on the table.)
PETER: This scratch on the table. What could’ve done this? A beast?
NARRATOR: (A ringing from a bell or something else making a gentle chime can be heard.
This represents Tinker Bell’s speech. PETER listens closely to Tinker Bell.)
PETER: Huh? What’s that Tink? Hook? You’re right! It must be! Captain Hook! Captain Hook
must have found Wendy! We need to rescue her before she gets hurt!
PETER: Boys! We need to save Wendy! We need to catch Captain Hook!
NARRATOR: (There is no response.)
PETER: Boys? Hello? Don’t tell me…
PETER: They’re gone too! Oh no. This is very bad. I need to get there, quick!
NARRATOR: (Just as PETER is about to leave, he notices that WENDY’s pocket watch was
left behind. He takes it before he exits.)

ACT 3 Scene 1
NARRATOR: Peter travels near HOOK’s ship.
PETER: I had to travel really far, but I’m almost there. I found a strange crocodile, it was
making a ticking sound, just like Wendy’s pocket watch! That crocodile... it must have been
the one that bit off old Hook’s left hand!
PETER: No wonder Hook left this thing behind! I bet this sound brings back some scary
memories!
PETER: Here we go! Captain Hook’s ship is dead ahead!

ACT 3 Scene 2
NARRATOR: HOOK’s ship. Stage right shows the cabin (a desk, a chair, a dagger, and a key
hanging from the wall) center stage shows the deck (a locked cage or room where the Lost
Boys and Wendy are implied to be imprisoned, though only Wendy is visible, and a large
open deck space leading downstage) and stage left shows the rest of the ship’s deck.
SMEE: It’s too late for you all, Lost Boys! Peter Pan won’t be here to save you!
And you, the girl... Wendy’s yer name! Captain Hook says you’re gonna become the
mother of all the pirates!
WENDY: Mother of the pirates? No! No, I mustn’t! I can’t! Oh, I truly must leave. I don’t want
my own mother to be worried sick…
SMEE: (Sarcastically.) You want out? Well… I suppose I’ll go see what ol’ Hook has to say
about that.
The girl wants to go home! I’m sure you know what to make of this, don’t you, sir?
HOOK: Mister Smee! We haven’t a moment to delay! Let us set sail!
NARRATOR: (HOOK approaches WENDY, menacingly. He draws his rapier and points it in
her direction. Before anything can happen, though, he begins to walk back to the cabin to go
fetch SMEE. He wants the ship to begin moving. Before he can do this, a ticking sound is
heard. HOOK is scared by the sound and runs away from the cabin to the other side of the
stage.)
HOOK: What the? That ticking! It can’t be!
PETER: I made it! Now, where is that key?
NARRATOR: (PETER searches for a moment before taking the key off the wall.)
PETER: This is it! I can free them! The Lost Boys! Wendy! Together, we’ll beat Captain Hook,
once and for all!
HOOK: Ha ha ha! You wouldn’t dare fight old Hook man-to-man! You’d fly away like a
cowardly sparrow!
PETER: Oh man, was he wrong! I sure did fight! Just when he thought he had me backed into
a corner, I got over to my friends and freed ‘em!
PETER: And then, right when I got the upper-hand, I kicked him!
NARRATOR: (PETER does just that, delivering a kick to push HOOK backwards. HOOK
doesn’t move until PETER finishes the following line.)
PETER: I kicked him so hard he fell right off the ship!
NARRATOR: (HOOK stumbles all the way. As he stumbles, he exclaims the following line.)
HOOK: That was poor form!
NARRATOR: (After a moment, a splash is heard. Following the splash is the ticking of a clock
and a cartoonish chomp sound. WENDY rushes to PETER and hugs him.)
WENDY: Peter! Peter Pan! Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you! I can’t begin to thank you
enough…
NARRATOR: (Before PETER gets the chance to speak, SMEE returns from stage right. He
scours the stage in search of HOOK.)
SMEE: Captain? Oh, Captain? Captain! The girl’s been freed! Captain…?

ACT 3 Scene 3
NARRATOR: At WENDY’s home , PETER stands outside the window once again. The
outside of the house is lit, but the inside is dim.
PETER: After all of her adventures in Neverland, Wendy still chose to go back home to her
family, and she chose to grow up.
WENDY: Thank you, Peter Pan! The adventures I had with you and all of the others in
Neverland… I will never forget them!
PETER: Maybe someday I’ll be able to visit once again! I sure hope so.
Until I’ll see you again, Wendy Darling!

End of Play.
Costumes

❏ Peter: A hat / belt

❏ Wendy: A gown / nice shirt
❏ Hook: A hook* / overcoat
Smee: A hat / eyepatch