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Lost Girl Play Analysis

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The University of Texas Department of Theatre and Dance’s performance of Lost Girl, follows the familiar childhood character from the story of Peter Pan, Wendy Darling. Playwright, Kimberly Belflower, presents Wendy as a lovelorn young woman trying to grow up and navigate the real world after returning from the magical world of Neverland. Belflower worked with director Cara Phipps, to perfectly illustrate Wendy’s multitude of conflicting emotions as she tries to find herself and getting over her relationship with Peter Pan in a modern day twist on the old tale. Wendy leaves Neverland after giving her kiss to Peter, with hope that he would return to her as he promised. After waiting nights on end with an open window anxiously awaiting Peter’s return, Wendy discovers that not only has he grown up, but he has also moved on to other girls and given her kiss away. Lost Girl delves into the many growing pains of love young women today experience as they are also trying to figure out who they are. Ultimately, Wendy must learn to let go of her Neverland adventures and Peter Pan …show more content…

The projections served as an important indicator of the location of the performance between Neverland flashbacks and Wendy’s home with a whimsical projection of fireflies and the forest and the cityscape and sky respectively. These projections also propelled the show across time by showing the changing seasons and transitioning through winter and spring, with projections of falling snow turning into sunny weather. Most significantly, the realistic projection of weather and the cityscape allowed the audience to see that the performance was in the real world, about real world troubles and not fantasy. This truly drove home the point of Wendy needing to look at the reality of Neverland and the magic of what she thought was love being a thing of the past and not her present

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