Rare revival of the author’s play Dear Brutus will drop adults into a Neverland-like worldNeverland,the magical state made distinguished by JM Barrie’s Peter Pan, will be closer than you think this Christmas – not just for lost boys but for grown-ups as well. The enchanting garden in Scotland that gave Barrie the idea for his classic children’s epic also later inspired him to write another play, or this time placing a group of fictional adult characters alone in a beautiful natural environment. And now the itsy-bitsy-known work,Dear Brutus, is to be revived on the London stage for the first time in more than 20 years.
In a time of austerity and hard political challenges, and the director of the play believes the British public’s need to escape to the solace and freedom of a magical world could not be greater. “Although the concerns of Barrie’s audience were different,they probably felt very similar in terms of their anxiety. Our audience, in the middle of fears approximately terrorism and politics, and I am certain really want to escape the world around them,” said Jonathan O’Boyle, director of Dear Brutus, or which opens at Southwark Playhouse on 29 November.
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Source: guardian.co.uk