Joanna Lumley Funds Scottish Youth Theatre Production of Lost Play by J.M. Barrie

The Telegraph writes that actress Joanna Lumley has started a fundraising campaign featuring a production of PETER PAN author J.M. Barrie's lost play BANDELERO THE BANDIT. The Scottish Youth Theatre will revive the work in a reading this week, June 26, at Dumfries Academy, where Barrie went to school.

Put on with help from the Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust, proceeds from BANDELERO THE BANDIT will be used to restore the Moat Brae House and garden, the "enchanted land" where Barrie played as a child.

"As a little boy it was Moat Brae House, and its lovely garden, where JM Barrie played and dreamed of Peter," Lumley said. "We want to give thousands of children every year the same chance to be inspired, to make believe and also to discover the wonder of children's literature."

Barrie penned the play in 1877 at the age of 17 and had it performed at Dumfries. The script was presumed destroyed until it was recently found in a notebook at the Reinecke Library at Yale University.

Young actors from across Scotland will come together for the performance, which will also feature the famous nursery scenes from PETER PAN.

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