The summer pantomime returns to Barmouth this week.

Last summer, Springfield Street Productions brought Cinderella to the Dragon Theatre. This year they will perform their own version of Peter Pan.

J M Barrie’s story has been adapted for the stage and while maintaining the romance, adventure and magic of the original plot, there is plenty of comic pantomime mayhem for the kids and a few risqué gags for the adults, provided mainly by a ‘far-out’ Dame and a nitwit of a ship’s doctor, Jim Crack-Knuckles.

In Never Never Land, which you may find if you head for the second star on the right and keep straight on ‘til morning, strange things happen all the time. For instance, a boy lives there who refuses to grow up.

His name is Peter Pan and his friends are the Lost Boys, Tiger Lily and his very own fairy, Tinkerbell.

Peter knows that he cannot beat his arch enemy, the evil Captain Hook, the skipper of the pirate ship The Jolly Roger, on his own, so Tinkerbell tells him about the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael, who live in Barmouth.

Peter flies off to Wales and offers to take the children back to Never Never Land to help him defeat Hook once and for all.

Ed Penney, the writer and producer of the show, said: “I am again very pleased to be able to work with such a talented cast, the majority of whom are under 15 years of age.

“I would like to thank our production crew for all their hard work, especially director Maureen Owen, musical director and choreographer Ashley Mason and vocal coach Donna Lea Morris.”

The profits from Peter Pan will be divided equally between the Alzheimer’s Society and Ty Gobaith Hope House Children’s Hospice.

Peter Pan is on at the Dragon Theatre every Wednesday at 7.30pm until 21 August.