by James Matthew Barrie
director, stage and lighting design Robert Wilson
music and songs CocoRosie
costume design Jacques Reynaud
co-director Ann-Christin Rommen
dramatist Jutta Ferbers, Dietmar Böck
stage collaborator Serge von Arx
costume collaborator Yashi Tabassomi
musical directors Stefan Rager, Hans-Jörn Brandenburg
arrangements Doug Wieselman
lighting Ulrich Eh
translation into German of the songs Arezu Weitholz
translation into German Erich Kästner
with Antonia Bill, Claudia Burckhardt, Anke Engelsmann, Johanna Griebel, Winfried Goos, Anna Graenzer, Traute Hoess, Boris Jacoby, Nadine Kiesewalter, Andy Klinger, Stefan Kurt, Christopher Nell, Stephan Schäfer, Luca Schaub, Marko Schmidt, Martin Schneider, Sabin Tambrea, Jörg Thieme, Felix Tittel, Georgios Tsivanoglou, Axel Werner and Lisa Genze
musicians Joe Bauer, Florian Bergmann, Hans-Jörn Brandenburg, Cristian Carvacho, Dieter Fischer, Jihye Han, Andreas Henze, Stefan Rager, Ernesto Villalobos
a production Berliner Ensemble
in collaboration with Change Performing Arts
performed in German and English, with subtitles in Italian
Master of the avant-garde theater, Robert Wilson was called to Spoleto by Giorgio Ferrara, starting from his first year as artistic director, to begin a successful collaboration that has lasted for six years, and thanks to which the great director’s works were staged for the first time in Italy with the Berliner Ensemble (Threepenny Opera, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Lulu) and new productions for the Festival like Happy Days with Adriana Asti and Krapp’s Last Tape where he himself acted, original incursions into the world of Samuel Beckett, as well as the The Old Woman by Daniil Kharms, interpreted in the last edition by the legendary Mikhail Baryshnikov and American actor Willem Dafoe. This year, Wilson returns to Spoleto with his new show Peter Pan.
With Peter Pan, the eternal child, the Scottish writer James Matthew Barrie has created one of the immortal myths of modernism. Few other texts have so profoundly influenced the imagination of entire generations such as Barrie’s who tells us about the fabulous and dreamlike journey to Neverland. Robert Wilson turns this daring universe filled with pirates, Indians, mermaids and children who can fly into a theatrical show full of inventions, supported by original music created by the American duo CocoRosie, and as usual by the splendid performers of the Berliner Ensemble company.
