The British dramatist and novelist Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) is best known for his play Peter Pan. James M. Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, on May 9, 1860, the son of a poor, hardworking weaver. Influenced by his mother's inter...
If Sir James M. Barrie had written no play other than Peter Pan (1904), the extraordinary and enduring popularity of this single work would testify to his talents as a dramatist. As it stands, however, the more than forty plays he wrote also manifest his...
If Sir James M. Barrie had written no play other than Peter Pan (1904), the extraordinary and enduring popularity of this single work would testify to his talents as a dramatist. As it stands, however, the more than forty plays he wrote also manifest his...
IT'S ALL too easy to sneer at JM Barrie - for the feyness that sets the teeth on edge and the dense Scotch mist that tends to swirl around his imaginative landscape. But anyone who has seen Peter Pan (the genuine version, not the...
(Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, Conn.; 575 seats: $65 top) A Westport Country Playhouse presentation of a play in three acts by J.M. Barrie. Directed by Gregory Boyd. Sets, David P. Gordon; costumes, Linda Fisher: lighting, Rui Rita; sound and music, John Gromada: production...
