Star rating: *****

For kids, this is just the most magical adventure - an extension of all the make-believe games they play (including on their computers).

Pirates have a scary-swaggering allure and the thought of running away, far from adult intervention and doses of medicine, is a fantasy that never evaporates. For adults there's nostalgia for childhood and care-free days. For theatre directors, there are the technical challenges of the flying rig and the potential pitfalls of outdated language - Barrie's play rejoices in curlicues of Edwardian lingo that are beyond youthful comprehension - and the complex nuances of characters such as Peter, Wendy, Hook and Mr Darling explore so many issues about what it means to grow up.

Clearly Jeremy Raison and his creative team had all these elements on their checklist and they've dealt with them in an imaginatively staged, handsomely acted production that soars just as high - and as thrillingly - as Robbie Towns's Peter.

I suspect we would all leave our windows open for this lithe, American-accented wild boy despite his short attention span, appetite for danger and total disrespect for other people's feelings, or indeed their belongings. Poor Wendy (Helen Mallon, a wee Glesga Darling) can mother Peter all she wants - and Mallon excels at a wee girl putting on a grown up voice and attitudes.

Andrew Clark (Mr Darling/Hook) goes roguishly over-the-top with plummy-posh Kelvinside accents and attention-seeking, foppish flamboyance, yet he too strikes exactly the right note of loss and longing - for a mother, for a safe nursery-haven - that makes Barrie's classic and his rebellious Pan so beloved of audiences everywhere.