Dear Brutus

The scene is a darkened room, which the curtainreveals so stealthily that if there was a mouse on the stage it is there still. Our object is to catcour two chief characters unawares; they are Darkness and Light...Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays.