My favorite play of all time. One of the best quotes of the book is: "one girl is worth twenty boys" and I think that's enough to read the story for. ( )

I was pleasantly surprised by this play, which I enjoyed, as I did Barrie's introduction.
I had previously read the children's story to my children and had expected the play to be very similar to the book, although necessarily compressed. However, although the same basic story, it is an independent work (having been written before the book). It is darker, which surprised me, and Peter Pan is a much more ambiguous figure of the child who never wants to grow up.
Well worth reading.
I read the Folio Society edition with illustrations with Paula Rego. I looked at the pictures before I read the play and thought that they were typically brilliant Rego, but incorporating her ideas rather than illustrating the play. But once I had read the play, I realised that the illustrations are true to the play, not the book, and the more enjoyable for that. ( )

I invented my personal Never Land prior to the lecture of this famous book, which was, like many children’s books, actually written for adults. During my life, I often returned to Never Land. And it will be my last destination.