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A review by rikke_bay
Peter Pan and Other Plays: The Admirable Crichton/Peter Pan/When Wendy Grew Up/What Every Woman Knows/Mary Rose by J.M. Barrie, Peter Hollindale
1.0
This took me forever to finish (about six months). I have come to a conclusion: J.M. Barrie is such a boring writer!
I read years ago Peter Pan, the novel, and found it boring. I have always loved Peter Pan-movies and as a concept, but I didn't really enjoy the novel. Then I thought maybe I would enjoy it more as the original play. A version without boring descriptions and with a good pace... Turns out Barrie had edited his plays a lot and the length and details in the stage directions were insane. A lot wasn't even things that belonged in a stage direction. And once again the pace felt off and the descriptions nearly killed me.
The other three plays was just as boring and nothing special about them what so ever. A shame since two of them had nice equality-discussions about class and gender, but the executions just drained them.
I read years ago Peter Pan, the novel, and found it boring. I have always loved Peter Pan-movies and as a concept, but I didn't really enjoy the novel. Then I thought maybe I would enjoy it more as the original play. A version without boring descriptions and with a good pace... Turns out Barrie had edited his plays a lot and the length and details in the stage directions were insane. A lot wasn't even things that belonged in a stage direction. And once again the pace felt off and the descriptions nearly killed me.
The other three plays was just as boring and nothing special about them what so ever. A shame since two of them had nice equality-discussions about class and gender, but the executions just drained them.