The current Broadway play Peter and the Starcatcher is a captivating prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan that speaks of the effect of lost mothers on little boys and even unloved, scalawag pirates.  We all know about lost boys and puckish fairies from Peter Pan, but a 1920 Barrie play, Mary Rose, goes deeper into the realm of eternal children, ghostly presences and missing mothers. It is a more austere companion to the fanciful flourishes of Peter Pan, sharing and deepening similar themes of loss and veiled worlds. [Read more...]