Peter Pan was the boy who wouldn’t grow up, but Wendy Darling always had other plans. She would grow up, and she would do it well. Even in the original play, Wendy dreamed of a life beyond Neverland. The current Broadway version of the play now touring across the US gives those dreams more depth, exploring the role of Wendy through the broader lens of possibility.
“I think she has the same core characteristics as other iterations of Peter Pan,” Hawa Kamara, who plays Wendy on stage, said. “But there’s more emphasis on her as a person, rather than her identity as entertained with the boys. She still wants to become a person who helps people, but she wants to be a surgeon. So she’s more than what she used to be.”
For Kamara, who makes her professional debut with the role, playing Wendy gives her an opportunity to be a role model to all the young women and girls in the audience who dare to dream of a larger world.
