Lisa Hodsoll (Mrs. Darling/Captain Hook)

What is the most exciting and challenging thing about playing such an iconic character?
Well it captures one’s imagination right off the bat.  There’s nothing dull about Hook.  Nor this Mrs. Darling truth be told.  And the fact of playing the dual role of Mrs. Darling and Hook and exploring the psychological through line between the two is so wonderfully rich.   I suppose the most challenging thing is to be faithful to the complexity, the subtlety of the spirit that animates this story.  It is so wonderfully layered and embracing of contradictions.  It is important to always strive to arrive at that fullness of character and not just rest on the surface.
How do you approach playing a villian?
I approach a villain like I approach any character.  I try to understand that person inside out and build the reality that results in the action and the word.

What makes this version of Peter Pan different than the one we all grew up with? 
My long ago memory of Peter Pan was of a sugary world with fairies and adventures and daring do.  This Peter Pan is haunted and haunting, still full of whimsy and delight but with a dark undercurrent to it.  I think it captures the spirit and sensibility that provoked the original.  Like Alice In Wonderland, it speaks to the child in all of us as well as to the adult and provides no pat answers or easy (read forgettable) ending.  This Peter Pan is about the tragedy of Peter as well as our own.  We are tragic because we must grow up, grow old and put aside childish things.  But Peter is tragic because he can’t.  He is ever relegated to Neverland, somewhere between the betwixt and the between and straight on til morning, needing others to tell him stories of himself and the life that he forgets as fast as he lives it.

Lisa Hodsoll (Mrs. Darling/Captain Hook) is so thrilled to be performing in her third No Rules Production. She first performed with No Rules in the role of Lindsay in Some Girl(s) and then Kathleen in Touch. She recently performed the role of Josie in A Moon for the Misbegotten with the Heritage-O’Neill Theater Company and the role of Lizzie B in A Magnificent Waste with Factory 449. Other area credits include The Saint Plays and 4.48 Psychosis with Factory 449, Bennie in Splinters at The Source Festival, Heidi in The Heidi Chronicles, Sarah in Spinning into Butter, and Lisa in Well with Theater Hopkins.

PETER PAN: THE BOY WHO HATED MOTHERS
WORLD PREMIERE
Adapted and Directed by Michael Lluberes
Based on “Peter and Wendy” by J. M. Barrie

This radically fresh retelling of the J.M. Barrie classic is a theatrical event not to be missed. Exploring the original ideas and inspirations behind this iconic fantasy, Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers tells the visceral story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up in a way you have never seen it before but how it was always meant to be told. Appropriate for ages 10 and up.

H Street Playhouse
1365 H Street NE, Washington, DC
February 8 – March 3, 2012

Hanesbrands Theatre
209 N. Spruce St., Winston-Salem, NC
March 20 – April 7, 2012 

Tickets: $25   Previews: $10
Student Rush $15 – at the box office only, 1-hour before curtain
DC PAY WHAT YOU CAN – February 8 at 8:00 PM
Winston-Salem PAY WHAT YOU CAN – March 20 at 7:30 PM

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