# MCMT brings Finding Neverland to Adelaide for the first time

**Featured** — On Your Markus  
**Event:** Finding Neverland  
**Tickets:** https://events.humanitix.com/finding-neverland-mcmt-2026  
**Published:** 26 October 2026  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/finding-neverland/

Marie Clark Musical Theatre presents the Australian amateur premiere of Finding Neverland at The Arts Theatre in November/December 2026. The musical, with music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy, follows J.M. Barrie's creative journey as he overcomes writer's block through his friendship with a widow and her sons in Kensington Park, ultimately inspiring his creation of Peter Pan.

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**Marie Clark Musical Theatre (MCMT) is delighted to present the Australian amateur première of *****Finding Neverland***** at The Arts Theatre in November/December 2026.**

![Silhouetted figures pose before a glowing clock face surrounded by golden sparkles and "Finding Neverland" title text.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/admin/2026/10/6f130ad9-7372-4135-95b7-e72351f83601.jpg)

Based on the Academy Award-winning motion picture and the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan, *Finding Neverland* follows the relationship between playwright J.M. Barrie and the family that inspired "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up". *Finding Neverland* features music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham.

It’s 1904, and successful London playwright J.M. Barrie has a serious case of writer’s block. While he is working on a new play, he recognizes that there is nothing original about it and the characters and plot are simply recycled from plays he’s already written. Despondent at the potential end of his career, Barrie meets a lovely and caring widow, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, and her four sons (George, Peter, Jack, and Michael) in Kensington Park. They embark on adventures of imagination together - all except Peter, unwilling to play and still reeling from his father’s death. As Barrie helps Peter learn to play again, his writer’s block gives way to a new art form: children’s theatre. But the adults are sceptical and unsupportive: Who will pay to see a play about children? Who will play these characters? And how will they make Peter Pan fly? *Finding Neverland* is based on the true events that led J.M. Barrie to create Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, and sings to the child in all of our hearts.

**Production Team**

Director: Michelle Davy  
Musical Director: Liam Phillips  
Choreographer: Shenayde Patterson

**[TICKETS](https://events.humanitix.com/finding-neverland-mcmt-2026)**

![Silhouetted figures and children in magical poses beneath a glowing clock surrounded by golden sparkles against a dark blue sky.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/admin/2026/10/29b25c7e-d95e-4699-b051-8ad718d4a280.jpg)