James Matthew Barrie

Dear Brutus James Matthew Barrie

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 catch our two chief characters unawares; they are Darkness and Light. The room is so obscure as to be invisible, but at theback of the obscurity are French windows, throughwhich is seen Lob's garden bathed in moonshine. TheDarkness and Light, which this room and gardenrepresent, are very still, but we should feel that it isonly the pause in which old enemies regard each otherbefore they come to the grip....