Dear Brutus

Written by J. M. Barrie

Narrated by LibriVox Community

At a house in the country 8 guests are invited to enter a magical wood to see what might have happened had they made a different choice in life. Even though they are warned away from the wood, they take a chance and enter. The title comes from Shakespeare: "The fault lies in our selves, dear Brutus, not in our stars...," and summarizes the theme of this play: given a second chance, will people still make the same mistakes? (summary by David O)

Mr. Dearth: azureblue
Mrs. Alice Dearth: Beth Thomas
Mr. Purdie: David Olson
Mrs. Mabel Purdie: Maryanka
Mr. Coade: ToddHW
Mrs. Coade: Bev J Stevens
Lob: Natalie Paula
Matey: bala
Joanna Trout: Libby Gohn
Lady Caroline Laney: Sarah Terry
Margaret: TriciaG
Narrated by Shakira Searle
Audio edited by David Olson

• Language: English
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014

J. M. Barrie

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie (1860--1937) was a novelist and playwright born and educated in Scotland. After moving to London, he authored several successful novels and plays. While there, Barrie befriended the Llewelyn Davies family and its five boys, and it was this friendship that inspired him to write about a boy with magical abilities, first in his adult novel The Little White Bird and then later in Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 play. Now an iconic character of children's literature, Peter Pan first appeared in book form in the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, about the whimsical adventures of the eternal boy who could fly and his ordinary friend Wendy Darling.