Peter Pan

PUPPETRY DESIGNER & DIRECTOR

National Theatre, 2016

“It’s Toby Olie’s horrifying mechanical crocodile puppet that will snap up the kids’ attention.”
TIME OUT

“There are some wonderfully theatrical moments here. A green sheet ingeniously transforms into Peter’s missing shadow, a corrugated crocodile with gleaming red eyes stalks the stage.”
THE STAGE

“A celebration of the ingenuity of invention and the joy of storytelling. There can be few who don’t shiver at the approach of the crocodile, composed as he is of bits of corrugated iron and a saw for a tail.”
FINANCIAL TIMES

“The crocodile is enormous, a thing of wonder made of old sheet metal and pipes…and bits of puppetry elsewhere have the inventive joyfulness which sends children home to play properly in imitation.”
THEATRE CAT

“An inventive playfulness and a visible, nothing-up-your-sleeve magic. When the Darling family fly off with Peter, black-and-white cards evoke the London rooftops, coloured globes become planets and rippling ribbons suggest the sea.”
THE GUARDIAN

Puppet Supervisor

Daisy Beattie

Puppet fabrication

Daisy Beattie
David Cauchi
Allan Edwards
Laura Elias
Lara Scott

Production Photography

Steve Tanner