Barrie's

Boully has captured the darkness of Barrie's text, and in elevating its inter- and sub-textualities to the level of discourse she illuminates and reinvigorates her source material without sacrificing any of its creepiness, wonder, or violence.

Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011

For the first time, there were no actors on wires or humans dressed as dogs in the telling of Barrie's story.

James Sims: Peter Pan Crows Again With Disney Magic, Off-Broadway James Sims 2011

But Dickens's childhood was an idyll, I think, compared with J.M. Barrie's.

The Hazards of Fairyland Frank Cottrell Boyce 2011

Boully has captured the darkness of Barrie's text, and in elevating its inter- and sub-textualities to the level of discourse she illuminates and reinvigorates her source material without sacrificing any of its creepiness, wonder, or violence.

Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011

Barrie's novelization, "Peter and Wendy," has its own famous opening: "All boys, except one, grow up."

The Hazards of Fairyland Frank Cottrell Boyce 2011

In Barrie's play, there's an extraordinary moment when Tinkerbell is dying and the audience is asked to save her by applauding and shouting, "I believe in fairies."

The Hazards of Fairyland Frank Cottrell Boyce 2011

It's the first in a five-month season of plays performed by the same actors which will also include David Auburn's US drama Proof, Bill Naughton's northern comedy Spring And Port Wine, and JM Barrie's The Admirable Crichton.

This week's new theatre 2011

From its first appearance on 27 December 1904, the appeal of JM Barrie's story about "the boy who wouldn't grow up" was intergenerational.

Peter Pan – review 2011

Mr. Locke quotes one passage from Barrie's "The Little White Bird" 1902 in which the childless adult narrator shares a bed with the 6-year-old son of a friend.

The Hazards of Fairyland Frank Cottrell Boyce 2011

Barrie's older brother died in 1867, when Barrie was 6, and his mother never recovered from the loss.

The Hazards of Fairyland Frank Cottrell Boyce 2011