This month’s cover star is unlike any we’ve ever featured before – one of a wonderful gallery of characters created by Oscar-winner Adam Elliot for his new animated feature film Memoir of a Snail.

A bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace, who is a hoarder of snails, romance novels and guinea pigs, the movie comes to the big screen this month with a score by composer Elena Kats-Chernin, who describes the project to writer Steve Dow as “a dream come true”.

We all know the story of Peter Pan. JM Barrie’s free spirit has been a staple of bedtime stories, pantomimes and film for more than a century. But how did Peter become the mercurial “betwixt and between” figure? And what made him decide to never grow up?

Find out as Elissa Blake talks to David Morton, the co-founder and Creative Director of Brisbane company Dead Puppet Society about its ambitious new Australian production of Peter and the Starcatcher – a reimagining of the Broadway hit telling the tale of an ordinary boy who became Peter Pan.

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