The Independent - London, October 6th, 2000
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 Disney abortion and its clones) would readily admit that he's a dramatist who can hit raw nerves other playwrights either fail to locate or overlook.
Children bring out in him all the primal hang-ups that it was his gift to convert into enchanting and upsetting myth. If Peter Pan is "The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up", then Margaret, the "boyish figure of a girl" in his ...
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