Purely 'Peter Pan'. .(Letter to the Editor)
American Theatre, April, 2003
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I was interested, irritated, amused, saddened and puzzled by the article "Fear of Flying" (Feb. '03), concerning Peter Pan. The article contains some alarming inaccuracies: J.M. Barrie is described as an English writer, but he was in fact born and raised in Kirriemuir, Scotland, and studied at the University of Edinburgh.
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English was not his native language--much of his early poetry is in Scots. The description of the 1904-05 stage work as a play is not correct: the original "Fantasy in Five Acts" included an 80-page musical score by composer John Crook. This ...
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