ABSTRACT
Peter Pan has of course been reworked in other cultural contexts and in other forms including the graphic novel and the digital realm of gaming. While the copyright status maintained in consideration of Great Ormond Street Hospital exercises some control over use of the source text, the pervasive nature of Peter Pan through both adaptation and more subtle intertextual allusion is sustained and prominent. Never a play only for or about children, Peter Pan continues to emerge from a vast range of texts and performances, speaking to and about diverse audiences. Rooster, inhabiting an England devastated by the march of suburbia, full of tall tales fostered by substance abuse, and visited by the lost boys and girls of rural Wiltshire, is in Ben Brantley’s words, ‘a poisoned Peter Pan’.
