Editing Tinker Bell (section)

==On stage==
In the original stage productions, Tinker Bell was represented on stage by a darting light "created by a small mirror held in the hand off-stage and reflecting a little circle of light from a powerful lamp",<ref>Roger Lancelyn Green, ''Fifty Years of Peter Pan'', Peter Davies Publishing, 1954</ref> and her voice was "a collar of bells and two special ones that Barrie brought from Switzerland".<ref name="ReferenceA">Roger Lancelyn Green, ''J.M. Barrie'', Bodley Head, 1960</ref> However, a 'Jane (or Jenny) Wren' was listed among the cast on the programmes as playing Tinker Bell; this was a joke which also helped with the mystique of the fairy character and fooled [[HM Revenue and Customs|H.M. Inspector of Taxes]], who sent Jane Wren a tax demand.<ref name="ReferenceA" />

Originally, no fairy dust was mentioned in the play, but Barrie added to the script the necessity to sprinkle it to enable the children to fly because "so many children tried [to fly] from their beds and needed surgical attention."<ref>Barrie, J.M. ''To The Five - A Dedication'' Hodder & Stoughton (1928)</ref>

In the  [[Peter Pan (1954 musical)|musical version of the play]], she was also represented by a darting light, accompanied by a [[celesta]]. Her favourite insult (as in Barrie's play) is "You silly ass!", which the audience learns to recognise because it is always represented by the same motif: four notes (presumably one for each syllable of the phrase), followed by a growl on the bassoon.