Peter Pan, the sequel
What’s Peter Pan Up to Now? All Will Soon Be Revealed - New York Times
“Peter Pan in Scarlet” takes place in 1926, more than 20 years after Barrie’s play was first produced on the London stage. The Lost Boys are the Old Boys, and they and Wendy Darling have grown up. Wendy is a wife and mother, something of an artistic dilettante who writes poetry. Nana, the nursemaid dog, is dead, though one of her descendants lives. Meanwhile the group is troubled by strange dreams that have been leaking out of Neverland.
Of course to return to Neverland they must become children again, and they do, with the aid of a new fairy, Fireflyer. (Barrie’s original fairy, Tinker Bell, seems to have disappeared.) Fireflyer is a he, an annoying little creature who is always getting in trouble.
But when the voyagers arrive in Neverland, they discover that it has been transformed, the land polluted, the trees autumnal. Of course there is Peter, who has still not grown up, and can’t read and write. ‘“I’m dying of boredom,” he cries.
“But now I have imagined you here, we can have the best adventures in the world,” he tells his friends. And so they do.
