... middle-class men to be the "bread winners- of the family, Mr Darling "plays- the child at home. The play rehearses this regression when it moves to Never Land, the world of childish adventure that is an escape from the pressures of adult life. In Never Land, the parental figures - Mr and Mrs Darling - are left behind, and so Barrie abandons the critique of the middle class that he seemed ... to offer in the first act. Never Land, as its name implies, doesn't exist, save in its imaginative rendering within the constraints of the proscenium arch. It is a place of play within a play. The t...

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