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Quality Street is a comedy in four acts by J. M. Barrie, written before his more famous work Peter Pan. The story is about two sisters who start a school "for genteel children". The original Broadway production opened in 1901 and ran for only 64 performances. The show was then... Read Full Overview

1918. Barrie, Scottish journalist, playwright, and children's book writer, became world famous with his play and story about Peter Pan. Along with The Admirable Crichton, Quality Street is considered one of Barrie's two best plays. Quality Street is about two sisters who start... Read Full Overview

J.M. Barrie

Comedy

Characters: 6 male, 9 female

Interior Set

Quality Street is a cup of exquisite comic delight. Set in England, about 1800, it is alive with elegant humor and wit. There are several maiden women in the action, some of them a bit sour and curiously... Read Full Overview

Quality Street: A Comedy is a comic stage play written by J. M. Barrie. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he... Read Full Overview

Quality Street is a delightful comedy play written by J.M. Barrie. The story is set in the early 1800s in the fictional town of Quality Street, where two sisters, Phoebe and Susan, live. Phoebe is a beautiful and charming young woman, while Susan is plain and unremarkable. When... Read Full Overview

A fizzing example of J. M. Barrie's comic touch, Quality Street glitters with wit and genteel mischief. Mischief and manners collide amusingly. Written for the stage as an edwardian stage comedy and presented as a british theatrical play, it distils the pleasures of classic humorous... Read Full Overview

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Quality Street is a comedy in four acts by J. M. Barrie, written before his more famous work Peter Pan. The story is about two sisters who start a school "for genteel children". The original Broadway production opened in 1901 and ran for only 64 performances. The show was then... Read Full Overview

"Quality Street" from James Matthew Barrie. Scottish author and dramatist (1860 - 1937).