Unlike much of his dramatic oeuvre, J. M. Barrie’s play Dear Brutus has a number of striking parallels with the author’s most enduring work, the children’s classic Peter Pan. In this play, a mysterious man of wealth offers a handful of house guests an opportunity that most of us can only fantasize about: the chance to revisit fateful decisions made over the course of their lives and, if they desire, to choose a different path.