PP original staging

[tcgoldenass]

I am planning a production of Peter Pan in which I would like to explore some of the original staging techniques used in 1904. I have been especially struck by things like the use of gauze (muslin?) for the water in the mariners’ lagoon scene (which I know was added the following year), and wonder how or where I could find out how each scene was staged. I have ordered the Lancelyn Green book ‘Fifty Years of peter Pan’ and am hopeful of getting some information from that, but if anyone has any other source material or ideas for finding it, I would be very grateful. Thanks, Tim Carroll

[andrew]

It might be worth you checking the original rehearsal script for the 1904 production. It's at the Beinecke Library at Yale, but you can buy a copy of it on microfilm. I have it both on microfilm and as a xerox - it's huge!

[tcgoldenass]

Thank you Sir, will do. tc