Darling by k ancrum5/28/2023 Upholding the spirit of adventure and the value of found family, Ancrum ramps up the tension through the increasingly discomforting night, creating a layered reworking. Wendy Darling isnt thrilled about the move to Chicago, mainly because her parents wont let her meet her best online friend Eleanor in person, despite the fact that they video-chat all the time. Lagoon nightclub, and the relationship between Tink and her girlfriend Ominotago, who is Ojibwe, is well wrought and tender. It transplants the story to 2020 Chicago, and takes away the magic of Neverland. Ancrum injects a healthy dose of intersectionality into the original’s structure: the group attends a drag performance at the Mermaid’s The route to the party is fraught with danger-the group evades police raids led by Detective Hook, and Wendy begins to realize that the night, and Peter, may conceal a dark agenda. When charismatic Peter Pan, who’s white, climbs through her broken window, she accepts his invitation to a party, sneaking out to join Peter and a group of disenfranchised teens, including “very short and very angry looking” Tinkerbelle, who’s bisexual and blonde. Wendy Darling, 17 and Black, chafes against her overprotective parents’ restrictions during her first week in the city where her mother was raised. In this contemporary Peter Pan reimagining, Ancrum ( The Weight of the Stars) reframes the fantasy as an after-hoursĪdventure set in the shadows of Chicago.
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