For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday

See it if only if you are intent on seeing every work written by Sarah Ruhl.

Don't see it if you expect interesting characters, dialogue and situations or if you want a play that really has something to say about Peter Pan.

See it if Want to spend 20 minutes wishing a character would die. Sorry they weren't dead when the play began so we could get on with it.

Don't see it if You are a fan of Chalfant. She's terribly miscast in a badly written part in a poorly written play Nesver believed she wanted to be Peter.

Also Boring first scene. Boring second scene. Messy 3rd scene. Interesting idea with an author who just doesn't know how make it a play, Heard the dialogue in many other plays. Got to the point I was thinking "Just hurry up and fly so we can get out of here.". A very very very long 90 minutes.... Read more Read less

See it if You want to see a dull under developed uncooked play. You have to see all of Sarah Ruel's plays. Good or bad

Don't see it if You have no Patience for theatre companies producing plays by famous playwrights even if a play isnt ready

See it if Not at all

Don't see it if Are limited with the number of shows you see

See it if You are a member of Sarah Rule's family

Don't see it if You are not a member of Sarah Rule's family

See it if you love Chalfant. She soars (literally!) even in an incoherent vehicle. But what gibberish she and her cast mates must speak. Bad script.

Don't see it if you want insights. Discussions (religion, politics, euthanasia) are superficial. Ruhl delivers a mess. Waste of talented cast/expensive set.

Also The original Peter Pan packs a wallop at the end when Wendy must stay behind ("you're too old") and let daughter Jane have adventures. The point is that people do grow up...which brings gains and losses. Here, there is no insight, no poignancy. Just an excuse to make everyone fly (which gets old really fast). And the talk (talk, talk) is excruciatingly banal. So many ineffective tricks pander to the audience (dad's ghost/ dog onstage/grown men in pjs/ etc).... Read more Read less

See it if Ruhl experiments w/ a family drama that for once doesn’t hinge on ghastly suppressed secrets or neurotic personalities. Sounds cool, right?

Don't see it if you expect that experiment to succeed. Play fails to stimulate emotionally or intellectually. Sadly lowered my estimation of Ruhl. Skip.

Also Acting & design are fine, but the whole construct of staging a story that has no conflict is a misfire. Mildly discordant personalities & some petty arguments but nothing’s really at stake—because it's a normal family, an inevitable loss, and a rational grieving process. Breaking from traditional storytelling devices is admirable, but since these characters don’t reveal any real problems (or illuminate our own) the play has a hard time convincing us to care.

Act 1 sets up a beautiful stage picture at its close that’s the play’s only moment of genuine surprise. In act 2 ideas about religion, death, & politics are shallow and seem like a pretext to show this family has disagreements like any other. Act 3 can’t successfully pull off the whimsical and comic catharsis it’s supposed to be if there was no build-up to begin with. And broad comedy isn't any of the actors' strength. I’m not angry, but the more I think about this play the less worthwhile it seems.... Read more Read less

See it if You like Family drama exploring themes of death and mortality.

Don't see it if You want a thought provoking satisfying drama. It is a confusing bit of fluff with no real meaningful core

See it if Strange scene transitions from a father's deathbed, to a whiskey fueled wake and then Neverland. Chalfant is brilliant always!

Don't see it if not whimsical like the title may suggest; I saw this very early in previews needs more development.

See it if you like Sarah Ruhl plays

Don't see it if you enjoy plot or, at the very least, interesting dialogue. I'm sure that I missed the point of the show.

See it if You're a Ruhl fan or a Kathleen Chalfant fan (she's good in everything, but even she can't save this play).

Don't see it if I should have given up after Dead Man's Cell Phone! The woman behind me summed it up best: "Can someone please tell me what that was about?

See it if Can't think of a reason.

Don't see it if You like well crafted writing.

See it if you're a Peter Pan fanatic who needs to see anything related to Barrie's character.

Don't see it if you're not a masochist looking to sit through 90 minutes of dreck.

See it if A waste of a beautiful Sunday afternoon! A morbid allegory of PETER PAN where hook represents death and Peter is afraid to grow old and die.

Don't see it if You love anything to do with Peter Pan. This show will spoil it for you forever unless you try very hard to forget it.

Also The cast tries. The costume change is clever as is the use of the set

See it if a play about "growing up" through the eyes of some 50-year-olds sounds interesting

Don't see it if The first two thirds of the show were excruciatingly boring. I'm disappointed because I enjoy some of Sarah Ruhl's other work