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Description: | The actor Pauline Chase wore this Peter Pan costume in 1911. The outfit consists of a suede jacket and shorts, silk tights and net wings.
The play Peter Pan, based on J M Barrie's much-loved children's story, was first performed at the Duke of York's Theatre on 27 December 1904. One critic described the first performance as 'three hours of utter magic, utterly different from anything yet known'.
Women actors played the role of Peter Pan from 1904, when Nina Boucicault starred as Peter, until the 1980s. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | work Leisure | Temporal: | c. 1911 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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