It seems the classic tale of “Peter Pan” is the latest victim of wokeness as a brand new live stage production of the popular book series by J.M Barrie will seek to get rid of some of the original songs that were sung by the Native American characters in the story and to create a so-called “safe place” designed to cancel the stereotypes and “caricatures” of Native American people. Nothing is safe from these people. Nothing at all.
Here’s more from Breitbart:
The latest Broadway revival has hired Lakota playwright Larissa FastHorse to rewrite the book for the new touring production because, in her words, the original play by J.M. Barrie “had caused harm to people.”
“When you read the original material, it’s very hurtful, it’s blatantly hurtful. It says really — in character descriptions and things — really negative things toward the Native people,” FastHorse statedd, according to a report published by Yahoo Entertainment. “One of the base assumptions was just that, if Indians are there, we’re fighting them.”
With her overhaul in place, the new production directed by Lonny Price will open on Feb. 20 in Baltimore, and is set to tour the country until April of 2025 with songs such as “Ugg-a-Wugg” eliminated altogether.
Unlike past productions, the show will now feature a “stronger representation of Indigenous characters,” will hire Native actors to prevent white actors from perpetrating “red face,” and will “empower” Native peoples, Yahoo added.
“What script am I leaving behind?” FastHorse went on to say of her thoughts about taking the job to rewrite the play to make it a better representation of Native Americans. “I’m making choices, not just based on one production on this tour, or the national tour, but I’m making choices based on the future, and making sure that things can be done for a long time by a lot of different folks.”
Sicangu Lakota playwright Larissa FastHorse was hired to recast “Peter Pan” for a national tour that has stops in Baltimore and D.C. https://t.co/AaAKMeJ5sQ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 15, 2024
One of the big complaints that many folks have made over the years about how the original takes on the story presented the Native American characters stems from making them very generic generalizations of stereotypes people had at the time in our culture. There’s also the fact that Tiger Lily, a young female Native American character is often portrayed in an oversexualized manner. And I agree, that is definitely creepy and should be changed, especially due to the kind of horrors our kids are exposed to today, what with drag queen story hours and everything.
“There were Indigenous people indigenous to everywhere on the planet, so each of them is the last of their culture, and they come to Neverland to preserve their culture until they can find a way back to this world because the Neverland is a place where you don’t grow old. So they can live forever and keep their culture alive,” FastHorse went on to explain her take on the characters.
“The magic of Neverland, a place where you never grow old, is a safe place where if I’m the last of my people, I can go there and save my culture and keep it alive,” FastHorse added. “That’s a beautiful use of the magic of Neverland, as opposed to taking real people and turning them into magical beings when we’re actually people that are right here.”
“In the past, this has been rewritten at times and redone,” FastHorse said during the interview, “and they’ve always hired Native consultants, who, let’s be honest, don’t have any power in the room, and as the book writer, they very much have given me more power than the average book writer.”
I mean, it’s a kid’s fantasy story, so perhaps FastHorse is taking things a little too seriously. However, when you start messing around with source material like this, it’s only a matter of time before they start redoing the production over and over adding more and more ridiculousness. Just imagine a transgender Wendy or Peter Pan? Or Peter Pan having crushes on the Lost Boys. It’s going to happen eventually.
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