Four adult actors don’t want to grow up. They adopt a group ‘lost boys’ and travel with it to their own Neverland.

Without the names J.M. Barrie or Peter Pan being called, Evelien Bosmans, Joke Emmers, Thomas Janssens and Matthias Meersman make off with the biography of the Scottish writer and his most famous character.

The childless Barrie meets Mrs. Davies and her offspring in Kensington Gardens. He plays games with the children and tells them stories. Barrie befriends the family. When their parents die, he takes care of these lost boys. Just like Peter Pan and Wendy in his stories. Here the lost boys are played by teenagers from Turnhout, often with a migration or refugee background, who have already suffered a lot of injuries, but still continue to imagine a better future. Because, as Janssens coos: ‘Only imagination can lift your feet up and make you wanna fly!’  (…)

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Filip Tielens