J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan

The story of Peter Pan is a narrative many of us believe we know well, and yet the J.M.

Barrie play that premiered on a West End stage in December 1904 is not the depiction of Peter, Wendy, Hook and Never Land that most people have experienced.

It was the critical and commercial success of this particular play which propelled the notoriety and appeal of the story, and without the success of that first production, Peter Pan would not be such a familiar part of our mainstream culture.

Lucie Sutherland examines how, and why, this play became so popular.