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Wendy & Peter Pan to star Lolita Chakrabarti, Daniel Krikler, Charlotte Mills, Hannah Saxby & Tom Xander

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced full casting for its forthcoming revival of Wendy & Peter Pan at London’s Barbican Theatre this autumn 2025.

Wendy & Peter Pan is playing at the Barbican Theatre from 21 October to 22 November 2025.

Directed by Jonathan Munby, this magical version of the classic children’s story by J.M. Barrie is adapted by Ella Hickson and features music by Shuhei Kamimura and design by Colin Richmond.

Already announced is RSC Associate Artist Toby Stephens (Oslo, Hamlet) as Captain Hook and Mr Darling.

He will be joined by Lolita Chakrabarti (Summer 1954, Hamnet) as Mrs Darling, Daniel Krikler (Fiddler On The Roof) as Peter Pan, Charlotte Mills (Wendy & Peter Pan) as Tink, Hannah Saxby (The Crucible) as Wendy, and Tom Xander (Mean Girls) as Curly.

The full cast also includes Joe Anthony as Shadow, James Berkery as Shadow, Kazmin Borrer as Shadow, Lili-Evangeline Bryden as Shadow, Harrison Claxton as Shadow/Doctor/Crocodile, Christopher Jeffers as Peter’s Shadow, Joe Hewetson as Martin the Cabin Boy, Scott Karim as Smee, Alexander Kranz as Shadow, Max Lauder as Slightly, Meg Matthews as Swing Shadow, Kwaku Mills as Michael Darling, Alexander Molony as Tom Darling, Kyle Ndukuba as Tootles, Guy Rhys as Doc Swain, Hadley Smith as Knock Bone Jones, John Sodiq Akanmu as Skylights/Swing Shadow, Ami Tredrea as Tiger Lily, Marcello Walton as Murt the Bat, and Fred Woodley Evans as John Darling.

The wider creative team includes Set and Costume Designer, Colin Richmond; Choreographer, Lucy Hind; Composer, Shuhei Kamimura; Sound Designer, Christopher Shutt; Lighting Designer, Oliver Fenwick; Video Designer, Taiki Ueda; Fight Director, Terry King and Casting Director, Annelie Powell CDG.

The production proved a hit at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2013, and returned in 2015.

Director Jonathan Munby said in a statement: “I am delighted audiences will be travelling to Neverland with Ella Hickson’s remarkable Wendy & Peter Pan. Bringing this production to the Barbican with such an exceptional company is both a privilege and an enormous creative joy. We have assembled an extraordinarily talented and diverse group of artists, each of whom will bring their own imagination, skill and courage to meet the challenges of this ambitious piece. Wendy & Peter Pan demands emotional truth, physical daring and a strong sense of ensemble, and I could not wish to embark on this journey with finer collaborators.”

Wendy & Peter Pan will play at the Barbican Theatre in London from 21 October to 22 November 2025.

Twelfth Night at the Barbican

Also part of the RSC’s winter season at the Barbican is their acclaimed new production of Twelfth Night (8 December 2025 to 17 January 2026), starring Samuel West (All Creatures Great and Small, Slow Horses) as Malvolio, Freema Agyeman (Jamie Lloyd’s Romeo and Juliet, God of Carnage, Doctor Who) as Olivia and Michael Grady-Hall (Two Gentlemen of Verona, Oppenheimer) as Feste.

More RSC shows in London

Current RSC productions playing in the West End include Matilda The Musical at the Cambridge Theatre; My Neighbour Totoro at the Gillian Lynne Theatre; and Born With Teeth at the Wyndham’s Theatre starring Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel.

Coming up in London is Simon Russell-Beale in Titus Andronicus at Hampstead Theatre, from 5 September 2025.

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Main photo: Wendy & Peter Pan casting. Photo (c) RSC

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