| None of the principal players bring the kind of honest, spontaneous feeling to their performances that is crucial to animating the highly literate, sometimes tryingly talky plays of Shaw. |
| Kerris Peeling's Peter Pan flies through the auditorium as well as across the stage and is less tryingly winsome than some who have taken on this role. |
| Mr. Pittu plays the sinister Cecil with a savory, ripe sense of cool malice, although he has a tryingly melodramatic scene in the second act, when Cecil writhes in agony at the ungratefulness of his superiors. |
| All this provides a certainty that messy real life so tryingly fails to. |
| Writer's four children and the small guest behave rather tryingly but the writer never loses his temper. |
