Mary Rose
Play by J. M. Barrie.
Performances
- 1920 US premiere
- 1951 Broadway
- 2007 Vineyard Theater, 108 E. 15th St., Manhattan (thru March 18, 2007); directed by Tina Landau
Commentary
The NYT reviewed a 2007 revival of the play thusly:
- Although Barrie wrote many plays, even his popular successes, like “The Admirable Crichton” and “What Every Woman Knows” have been largely relegated to the ranks of the unrevived. After its United States premiere in 1920, “Mary Rose” was seen on Broadway very briefly in 1951. Then, like the rest of Barrie’s stage work (“Peter Pan” spectacularly excepted), it sailed off into the Neverland of theatrical obscurity. Such a fate is somehow apt for this elegantly plotted ghost story, which tells of a spunky British lass who has an odd habit of evaporating and then reappearing. [1]
Ah, the spunky protagonist.
Notes
- ↑ Charles Isherwood, "Reviving a Barrie Fantasy Not Called 'Peter Pan', NYT 2007/2/21 Theater Review. Available at http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/theater/reviews/21rose.html .