Wasteland: Peter Pan

Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, the Lost Boys, the ticking crocodile and the endless adventures are part of the magical, escapist world of Neverland. A Neverland far from reality, where everything seems possible. But what would happen if we could no longer see this world through the eyes of a child and the journey to Neverland became a dystopia? And what if Peter Pan is not an innocent, adventurous hero after all, but a domineering tyrant?

Director Jessica Weisskirchen, together with author Patty Kim Hamilton, devotes herself to the Peter Pan story as a journey into the depths that are just as inscribed in James Matthew Barrie's characters, but which are rarely in the foreground.

In this reading, facets of Peter, Wendy, Hook, Tinkerbell, the Lost Boys and their confrontation with life, time and their mutual dependencies come to light. All this in a world in which everyone is confronted with their own finiteness and death is the last unpredictable component, the uncertainty that must be made controllable in the naive hope of immortality. But no matter how much one clings to life, time keeps ticking and: "Dying is a really great adventure."

(PROGRAM IN GERMAN)