The Boy James

[Robert Greenham]

"Scarring trauma of boy becoming man". So reads the headline of a half-page review, in last Monday's The Times, of the new play about J. M. Barrie.  "A play about J. M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, has a penetrating melancholy, says Sam Marlowe".  'The Boy James' was written by Alexander Wright and produced by the immersive-theatre specialists Belt Up.

Please excuse me if you folks already knew about this play, but I had no prior knowledge of it, which evidently had a critically acclaimed 3-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2010.  Recently it opened at Southwark Playhouse in London on Jan 15 and closes on Jan 28, yet searching on the internet finds references and reviews, etc., some of them glowing.  So, provided there are still seats available, here is another chance to see and, as one is meant to, become involved in this play.

[Robert Greenham]

The review in The Times cannot be read online unless you pay a subscription, but it (and other reviews) has been reproduced within Belt Up Theatre's blog, here:
http://beltuptheatre.blogspot.com/2011/01/few-more-reviews-inlcuding-times.html