{"id":2223,"date":"2013-05-17T07:21:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T11:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2013-05-17T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:18:03","slug":"this-side-of-neverland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2013\/05\/17\/this-side-of-neverland\/","title":{"rendered":"J.M. Barrie&#8211;Revived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/05\/images-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2224\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/05\/images-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giving a nice twist to F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s novel\u00a0<em>This Side of Paradise,\u00a0<\/em>the Pearl Theater in NYC brings two short plays by J.M. \u00a0Barrie&#8211;<em>Rosalind<\/em> and\u00a0<em>The Twelve-Pound Look&#8211;<\/em>under the umbrella title <em>This Side of Neverland<\/em>. \u00a0Unlike <em>Peter Pan<\/em>, most of Barrie&#8217;s other plays have not fared well, in part because they feel like period pieces, with their depiction of Edwardian manners and mores, courtship rituals and marital discord. \u00a0But now we have what appears to be a successful revival of two of the works.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Catherine Rampell&#8217;s review from the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These two droll delicacies involve resourceful women with surprise identities. And both tuck proto-feminist messages into gently barbed social commentary \u2014 about aristocratic fat cats, class anxiety and the entertainment industry \u2014 that still holds uncomfortably true today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pristinely directed by J. R. Sullivan, both plays seem so good-natured that you hardly notice you yourself might be the object of dissection. Preshow and entr\u2019acte piano-playing of period tunes like \u201cLet Me Call You Sweetheart,\u201d whose misty-eyed lyrics are found inside the program, allow audience members to sing along. Don\u2019t let the musical nostalgia and starchy dressing gowns fool you, though; as Mr. Sullivan makes clear, Barrie\u2019s words are disturbingly current.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>http:\/\/theater.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/14\/theater\/reviews\/this-side-of-neverland-at-pearl-theater.html<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving a nice twist to F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s novel\u00a0This Side of Paradise,\u00a0the Pearl Theater in NYC brings two short plays by J.M. \u00a0Barrie&#8211;Rosalind and\u00a0The Twelve-Pound Look&#8211;under the umbrella title This Side of Neverland. \u00a0Unlike Peter Pan, most of Barrie&#8217;s other plays have not fared well, in part because they feel like period pieces, with their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}