really enjoyed reading the original version of "Peter Pan, " The stage directions in this script are unlike any I've ever read before, They are so elaborate and detailed, Some would even believe that all of these details are not crucial to the actual show, but it is great to read Barrie's thoughts! Non ho amato la forma teatrale del testo.
Capisco che è stato concepito così, ma leggerlo a volte mi è un po' pesato, avrei preferito vederlo su un palco!
Altra cosa che ho odiato è stata la traduzione italiana.
Non trovo il senso di tradurre e cambiare i nomi di alcuni personaggi principali! I fratelli di Wendy sono Michael e John, non Michele e Gianni! E vogliamo parlare di Giacomo Uncino A questo punto avrebbero fatto prima a chiamare il libro "Pietro Padella".
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Diciamo che è stata una lettura carina, ma sono decisamente più fan del cartone animato! for school!
very racist, weird. the origins of a dope character and idea, and i'm not saying barrie isn't whimsical, i'm just saying that there's a reason we don't perform this play in its original form anymore, read it for cultural context, not for fun, I can say I've read it now, And I hated it. There is something troubling about the concept of play in this production, It's a play at station, Very much is it a glimpse into a time and place, But the fact that this story has become a modern phenomenon scares me to no end, There is a delusional violence that underpins this story, Peter Pan is mercurial tyrant at times, The Character of Wendy is horribly abused, And Michael and John become trapped in Fae, If this play was looked at through the older bacchanalian lens of Fae, I think this play could be amazing, A psychedelic wormhole that over takes everyone, But playing it as twee, . . scares me. Although "Split my infinitives ' and most things about Hook are hilarious, It was interesting reading this play, Peter pan is my favourite Disney story, and I loved the sequel Hook, You could see elements of both movies in this story, I had fun reading about this adventure, Though it was also melancholy and sad as you realize how lonesome Peter's life seems, Though he always forgets, so it is not like he is bothered by it, Se, come me, vi trovate a leggere questo libro ormai grandi, non aspettatevi la favoletta raccontatavi da piccoli,
Prendete il film danimazione della Disney e mettetelo via nei vostri ricordi, perchè questo libro è assai più crudo e prepotente,
La storia di Peter Pan, il bambino che non voleva crescere, ma le cui maniere non son proprio fanciullesche, senza contar il narcisismo di cui esso è intriso.
Alla storia di Pan do tre stelle e mezza, Ive been watching a series on TV about the golden age of children literature Wonderland: From JM Barrie to JRR Tolkien, I had thought that I had definitely read all the books mentioned, though many, many years ago, However, my memories of the stories did not always tally with the TV program, Of course, now I am an adult, I would view things differently but it was more than that, The program talked about the darkness in each of the authors lives, that came out in the books, I remembered Peter Pan as being fun, full of adventure not dark at all, Maybe it is only the Disney film I remember, So, I had to reread it or maybe read it properly for the first time,
The only copy we had at home was a beautiful Folio Society book, with illustrations by Paula Rego I couldnt find that on Goodreads.
It is the play, rather than the novel the first telling of Peter Pan, which Barrie later revised and turned into a novel,
It took me a while to read it mainly because I just could not get into it, and found much of it quite boring.
Language has changed, as has society, and while I dont want to condemn a book by applying current attitudes to something written a century ago, there were parts that I now found uncomfortable primarily the depiction of the redskins and calling them pickaninnies, the assignation of all housekeeping to Wendy, and the pretty much useless father who even makes Peppa Pigs father look competent.
There is an almost beatification of the role of Mother, which seemed to revolve around a woman doing all the work to look after boys.
The Lost Boys and Peter adopt Wendy as their Mother clearly any female will do, age no object,
I found the spoken lines of the play rather irritating and insipid, However, the stage direction which the audience never sees nor hears can be sublime, A few that caught my attention:
“What you see is the Never Land, You have often half seen it before, or even threequarters, after the night lights were lit, and you might have beached your coracle on it if you had not always at the great moment fallen asleep.
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“Cruellest jewel in that dark setting is HOOK himself, cadaverous and blackavised, his hair dressed in long curls which look like candles about to melt, his eyes blue as the forgetmenot and of a profound insensibility, save when he claws, at which time a red spot appears in them.
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“Down this the pirate Hook wriggles a passage, In the aperture below his face emerges and goes green as he glares at the sleeping child, Does no feeling of compassion disturb his sombre breast The man is not wholly evil: he has a Thesaurus in his cabin, and is no mean performer on the flute.
What really warps him is a presentiment that he is about to fail, ”
Therefore, I have great hopes of the novel, As a play, the imagery and poetry of Barries prose is sadly missing and the sexism and racism which will probably still be in the novel, as a product of the times hits one unmediated.
And yes it is dark,
A childhood memory sadly excised, But a classic nonetheless, which continues to save thousands of sick children through its funding of the wonderful Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital, which holds the rights to the story.
Per apprezzare fino in fondo questo classico bisogna fare un passo indietro e soffermarsi un attimo sulla vita dell'autore,
Fatto questo si è pronti per partire alla volta dell'Isola Che Non C'è insieme a Peter Pan, l'inimitabile Trilly, Wendy, Gianni e Michele,
Un po' come Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie anche questo è uno di quei testi che, memori della versione animata, si tende a sminuire e per certi versi a travisare nei contenuti.
Peter Pan non è solo un libro per bambini, ma è decisamente molto di più, Un classico che andrebbe letto soprattutto da adulti, When the play starts with an indecipherable prologue and the first stage direction is obstreperous you should know you're in for a very strange journey.stelle. Il mito dell'infanzia eterna, un desiderio proibito e molto pericoloso, Quando si pensa a Peter Pan, la prima cosa che di solito viene in mente sono le mirabolanti avventure vissute dai protagonisti dell'adattamento cinematografico della Disney, in stile L'Isola del Tesoro di Stevenson.
Io per prima non avrei mai associato una valenza così fortemente negativa al personaggio di Peter Pan, come invece questo testo sottolinea in continuazione, Peter è' l'incarnazione del preoccupante fenomeno per cui sempre più persone manifestano un'ostinata volontà di rimanere bambini, in barba al tempo che passa, alle aspettative proprie e della società odierna.
Egli agisce sempre d'impulso, segue i suoi capricci, non si cura dei sentimenti degli altri a meno che non possa ricavarne un tornaconto utile e non lo fa solo per cattiveria, ma perché la sua paura di crescere lo ha portato ad allontanarsi dalla società al punto da regredire a uno stato semiprimitivo.
In questo senso, Barrie è' stato una voce anticipatrice di quello che sarebbe effettivamente successo poco meno di un secolo dopo, Il secondo aspetto che mi ha spiazzata è' certamente la forma dello scritto, che si presenta come testo
teatrale: dall'introduzione sono venuta a conoscenza del fatto che è da questa versione originale per il teatro che lo stesso Barrie, anni più tardi, decise di trasporre in prosa le avventure del suo personaggio più celebre.
In quanto testo teatrale, posso affermare con sicurezza che la resa scenica sulla base delle indicazioni dell'autore è' forse tra le più macchinose e irrealizzabili mai ideate si richiede di creare sul palco navi, alberi e case su più livelli, specchi d'acqua, inseguimenti e piedi e in barca, figure volanti.
. . con un numero davvero elevatissimo di personaggi che nella maggior parte dei casi sono solo comparse, I personaggi principali agiscono più che parlare, e le note riguardanti l'ambiente e i movimenti superano di gran lunga le parti dedicate ai dialoghi, cosa che ha contribuito a rendere la lettura molto lenta e discontinua.
Non posso affermare che sia una lettura interessante dal punto di vista della trama per una volta rendiamo merito al lavoro della Disney, ma in quanto a messaggio e idea di fondo nulla da eccepire ho comunque apprezzato l'aver approfondito un po' quel che c'è dietro questo classico della letteratura per ragazzi, molto meno conosciuto di tanti altri.
Seconda stella a destra e poi dritto fino al mattino, . . chi non vorrebbe andare lì ogni tanto Dove non si diventa mai adulti e cinici, insieme ai bimbi perduti il mio preferito è Macchia, quelli caduti dalla carrozzina mentre la governante stava guardando da unaltra parte.
Andare nel mondo in cui anche il perfido Uncino sintenerisce di fronte a Peter, Forse J. M. Barrie quando lo scrisse pensava a quel bambino che troppo presto era diventato invisibile agli occhi della madre, dopo la morte del fratellino David di solianni, o forse ai piccoli Davies, conosciuti ai giardini di Kensington, rimasti troppo presto orfani.
Chi lo sa Solo chi da adulto continua a coltivare il piccolo che ha dentro, non si sente mai tristemente vecchio o egoisticamente infantile, Attenzione adulti! Un bambino per crescere bene non ha bisogno di oggetti, ma di storie perché quelle portano ad immaginare e chi ha una mente immaginifica da adulto creerà scenari nuovi, chi è abituato ad avere tutto, vivrà nostalgicamente uninfanzia che durerà per sempre, avendo continuamente paura di perdere privilegi e attenzioni ritenute dovute.
This is the beloved story of Peter, Wendy, Michael, John, Capt, Hook, Smee, the lost boys, pirates and the indians, and, of course, Tinker Bell, in their adventures in Never Land, However, for the first time, the play is here restored to Barrie's original intentions, In the words of John Caird: "A brief explanation of some of the decisions we took in revising the text may be useful to anyone considering their own production of this version We were fascinated to discover that there was no one single document called PETER PAN.
What we found was a tantalizing number of different versions, all of them containing some very agreeable surprises We have made some significant alterations, the greatest of which is the introduction of a new character, the Storyteller, who is in fact the author himself.
To a reader of the play, one of its most enjoyable ingredients is Barrie's unmistakable authorial tone, He tells the story of Peter Pan partly through dialogue and partly by means of his inimitable stage directions, In a whimsical, ambiguous and ironical manner he speaks here as clearly to adults as he does to children, Moreover, many of the play's complicated conceits are only comprehensible if Barrie's commentary can be heard in parallel with the voices of the characters, This device also allows us to prepare our audience with some essential background history of the Darling family in a brief prologue, and to extend the narrative at the end of the play to include Barrie's heartbreaking and heartwarming conclusion to Peter and Wendy's story.
" As a child, I thoroughly enjoyed watching Peter Pan and the Lost Boys' spontaneity and free spirit, Tinker Bell's sass, the kindhearted Darling siblings, and the villainous Captain Hook and Smee.
Now, I still do, and it's been refreshing to actually read Peter Pan, in script form no less, picking up details forgotten after so many years.
Although the book does have some very lengthy, detailed stage directions and descriptions that almost remind me of a novel!, it does have a nice amount of whimsy added to the plot since this version includes a storyteller.
Peter Pan tells the story of Wendy, John, and Michael Darling, who fly off to Neverland with Peter Pan, a mischievous young boy who wouldn't grow up.
The siblings meet the Lost Boys a gang of young boys led by Peter and Tinker Bell the fairy, and they have adventures with mermaids, Indians, and a ticking crocodile all while being sought after by pirates.
J. M. Barrie gives glimpses of the pirates' "good" sides, which I believe was a nice, realistic touch, However, I found the story a little darker than expected and quite heartbreaking at times, such as when Peter Pan portrays the fantasy of staying carefree and innocent forever fit for those wanting a witty, engaging adventure facing the reality of growing up.
"Second to the right and then straight on till morning!"I loved this, but I have no idea how it would actually work.
It seems like a play meant to be read, .