The original book of peter pan5/24/2023 ![]() We have postcards and programmes in stock, as well as material relating to JM Barrie’s other stage work. A production was also staged in Manchester in 1906 starring Zena Dare. Cecilia Loftus took on the role in 1905 and by American actress Pauline Chase between 1906-13 (book, shown here with a signed postcard of her dated 1913). The role was first performed by Nina Boucicault, daughter the impresario Dion. Following the Pantomime tradition, the leading role pf Peter was played by an actress. The programme on display in the auditorium was supplied by POPT. It premiered in 1904 at the Duke of York’s Theatre, just around the corner from the shop. Barrie developed the character as an adolescent boy, for the stage as Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, a play for children. He only featured in the chapter Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, as a seven year old baby who flies away to join the fairies. ![]() The character Peter Pan first appeared in a chapter of Jm Barries’s 1902 novel Little White Bird. ![]()
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