![]() As I write this, we are on the cusp of the centenary of the J.M. The play is frequently seasonally revived, while there have been numerous films adaptations – ranging from the silent Peter Pan (1924) to the well-remembered if over-rated Disney animated version Peter Pan (1953) and Steven Spielberg’s live-action sequel Hook (1991). The fantasy has become so enduring that the term ‘Peter Pan’ has become one used generically to describe adults who still delight in child-like innocence – and has notably been applied to figures like Michael Jackson and Steven Spielberg. The enduring popularity of Peter Pan may not necessarily be its greatness as a play or book but simply the purity of the fantasy it contains – it is a wish fulfilment of lost childhoods, of banishing all adult responsibility and living in a perpetual state of play fuelled with the unbridled power of dreaming, even being able to fly. Barrie’s Peter Pan, originally produced as a play in 1904 and later turned into a novel by Barrie in 1911, must surely be counted as one of the two or three top all-time classics of children’s literature.
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