![]() ![]() “You be a pirate and I’ll be the captain.” That sort of play is so central to it that Black Stache, he’s the funnel for that idea and that style in the show. It’s a play about playing and imagination and having fun and going a little bit wild and crazy like when you’re a kid and you accept that the chair leg is a sword and that the rope is the ocean. The staging of the play is very clever but also very simple. He admits early on that what he really wants to be is a hero, but take the money. ![]() And as he goes along, he’s really searching for what we’re all searching for - money and a reason to exist. He’s perpetually disappointed with his lot. And he’s surrounded by fools because none of the smart people are going into piracy. And so there’s not a lot of apparatus for him to succeed. When we meet him at the beginning, he’s this guy who decided a long time ago that he was going to be a pirate and in a time when pirates weren’t really a thing. Peter Pan gives Hook a goal, but this is before that, of course. It’s important to me that, even though it’s such a showy, fun time in the play, to present something that has some psychological plausibility.ĬRITICS’ PICKS: What to watch, where to go, what to eat But I didn’t go back and study for this character. I’ve seen “Hook” and a lot of the other Peter Pan iterations over the years - it’s really just in me. We’re all familiar with the Peter Pan story, and the characters are in our DNA. Did that change the way you approached the role? Your character eventually becomes Captain Hook, and we’ve seen that character quite a bit. I guess I usually say he’s the villain of the piece and that villains are always a ball of fun, especially in a comedic fantasy like this one. Because he’s alone, and he’s surrounded by idiots. His humor is so arcane and a little elusive. Oh, man, he’s such a bundle of contradictions and weirdness. How do you describe your character to someone who hasn’t seen the play? ![]()
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