A fascinating premise, played absolutely straight, with emotional depth and extraordinary resonance - Peter Pan flies into the window of a grown woman, and suddenly she faces some hard choices. In lesser hands, what might have been a facile ten minute play is here a full length exploration into some powerful ideas. Claire is beautifully dimensional, Peter is - as he always has been - an alluring ideal of the wonders of a never-ending childhood that, on deeper examination, is a deadly trap. The ending will have you thinking about Claire's choices for a while.
A fascinating premise, played absolutely straight, with emotional depth and extraordinary resonance - Peter Pan flies into the window of a grown woman, and suddenly she faces some hard choices. In lesser hands, what might have been a facile ten minute play is here a full length exploration into some powerful ideas. Claire is beautifully dimensional, Peter is - as he always has been - an alluring ideal of the wonders of a never-ending childhood that, on deeper examination, is a deadly trap. The ending will have you thinking about Claire's choices for a while.