Peter Pan

Is Peter Pan the most significant play in English from the 20th century? It’s about the magical moment between waking and sleeping, when anything is possible, when we can almost fly out of our beds into the night sky and where, because in our own minds we never grow old, our friends are always young. We are the Darling children who fly with Peter to the Never Never Land where there are mermaids and pirates, where time seems to have stopped because a crocodile swallowed the only clock, where Captain Hook jealously frets over the happiness of the Lost Boys.