Story Behind the Story

Story Behind the Story

“Tailor’s Daughter Is Nowshehra’s First Female Judge.”    Her name does not appear anywhere in that headline. Her father’s occupation does. Ask yourself, would that headline exist if her father were a banker? The class angle is not entirely out of place. Being a tailor’s daughter in a profession where working-class families are severely under-represented has its own structural challenges. But the headline does not report that. It implies it — us…

The story behind the story of Peter Pan

Finding Neverland, which was adapted from the 1998 play The Man Who was Peter Pan, made its Drayton Entertainment debut last week at the Hamilton Family Theatre in Cambridge, where it’s on stage until May 3. James Graham’s story tells of a young widow and her four sons who inspired the struggling playwright J.M. Barrie to become the writer he yearns to be. It was then in 1904 that he wrote a tale of a magical island: Peter Pan, The Boy Who Would…