One wonders if Daniel Roberts is attempting a spin on J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in his dark comedy Haunted House, now at the Irish Arts Center, since he uses Peter and Wendy as the names for an incestuous half-brother and half sister. Moreover, Peter is mentally challenged, which means he's never quite grown up, just as the head lost boy in the children's classic refuses to leave childhood. But whatever Roberts is trying to do here beats me -- except that after a seemingly endless 85 minutes, I decided Roberts could be doing anything other than writing a coherent play.


For the record, the action is set in the Long Beach, New Jersey backyard of the eponymous run-down house, which is ru[...]