NEW YORK—In 2017, the UK-based Mischief Theatre company brought to Broadway the absolutely brilliant farce, “The Play That Goes Wrong,” detailing the technical and comic mishaps that occurred during the performance of an old-fashioned English murder mystery.
Now, the same creative team (Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields) tries their hand at farce once more. This time their vehicle is James M. Barrie’s beloved classic “Peter Pan,” as presented by the very, very amateur Cornley Youth Theatre. For those unfamiliar with the Barrie work, the plot can be summed up thusly: In early 1900s London, the Darling children, Wendy (Charlie Russell), John (Sayer), and Michael (Matthew Cavendish), are visited by the mischievous Peter Pan (Greg Tannahill), a boy who can fly. Also with Peter is his companion, the fairy Tinker Bell (Nancy Zamit).
