Multi-award-winning comedy trio Sleeping Trees are returning with another festive mash-up. This time they are taking JM Barrie’s beloved boy who would not grow up, adding twenty years and fifty pounds, and sending him to the depths of the Labyrinth with just a Faun for help.
In this alternative adult comedy, stardust meets fairy dust and Sleeping Trees create a show full of fast-paced storytelling and surreal character comedy, including a cult soundtrack, with an overall party atmosphere.
Waterloo’s underground is transformed into a sinister and occasionally seductive realm inhabited by characters from Peter Pan, Labyrinth and Pan’s Labyrinth. Expect a slug named Wendy, that Hands for Eyes character, and the maze master himself, David Bowie. David Bowie is played by drag artist extraordinaire Dan Wye (aka Seayoncé).
This alternative Christmas treat follows their previous mash-ups of Goldilocks, Scrooge, the Three Musketeers and the Seven Dwarves.
After time finally catches up with him, Peter Pan leaves Neverland, and he leaves behind the lost boys, Tinkerbell, and his youth. We’re now in 2022, and Peter smokes, drinks, and lives off a diet of creamed Possum and Bovril. Not wanting to attend Tinkerbell’s wedding looking like the target of a Huel advert, Peter searches for a solution to his ever-expanding gut and ever-aggressive acid reflux. According to rumours, only one man has powers strong enough to restore him to his former glory, David Bowie. Unfortunately for Peter, Bowie lives at the centre of the Labyrinth.
Sleeping Trees have been touring and creating work for over a decade and have had a total of fifteen productions in that time, including eight Edinburgh Festival shows and six Christmas shows.
Introducing drag artist Dan Wye AKA Seayoncé
This show sees the company introduce drag artist Dan Wye, better known onstage as Seayoncé to the Sleeping Trees gang.
When asked about playing David Bowie in Peter Pan’s Labyrinth, Dan said, ‘When I was 19 years old, I’d go to Edinburgh Fringe with my friends, and Sleeping Trees was one of the companies we would always go and see. Working with them now is wonderful because we share a comedy language which makes it easy to improvise and bounce off each other. We’re making something comedy for comedy’s sake and about having fun’.
Buy tickets to Peter Pan’s Labyrinth
Peter Pan’s Labyrinth, 18 October – 7 January, THE VAULTS Theatre Entrance, Launcelot Street, SE1 7AD
