Alice Sit-by-the-Fire

After years in India, Alice Grey steps off the ship into a home that has learned to function without her. Her children have grown into strangers, her husband has become a quiet man she barely recognizes, and the English fog feels colder than the sun she left behind. J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, turns his gaze from eternal boyhood to something more bittersweet: the impossible distance between those who leave and those who stay. Through sparkling dialogue and gently devastating observation, he asks what it really means to come home. A mother must win back her children's hearts not through presence alone, but through the harder work of understanding what absence has created. The play balances Barrie's characteristic wit with genuine emotional weight, exploring memory, identity, and the way families both heal and wound each other.