The Birds (a comedy) written by Aristophanes and performed at the Theatre Royal, Cambridge, in November 1883

Scenes from The Birds (a comedy, published in English in 1883) written by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes (c. 446 BC - c. 386 BC) and performed at the Theatre Royal, Cambridge, with the music composed by Hubert Parry and conducted by himself and Charles Wood, in November 1883.

  

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Ghosts, written by Henrik Ibsen (1888 - 1906) and first performed in Sweden, at Helsingborg on 22 August 1883.

   Scenes from Ghosts written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906) and first produced at Helsingborg, Sweden, on August 22, 1883, starring Hedvig Winterhjelm as Mrs. Alving and August Lindberg as Osvald.

   Ghosts was  first performed in May 1882 in the United States, produced in Danish for Scandinavian immigrants by a Danish-Norwegian cast in Chicago, at the Aurora Turner Hall. The first performance in Sweden was at Helsingborg on 22 August 1883. Ghosts was produced in Norway in October 1883, and it received good reviews. It was produced independently in September 1889 at Berlin's Die Freie Bühne.

Charlotta Raa-Winterhjelm as Mrs. Alving and August Lindberg as Osvald in the 1883 Swedish performance.

Photos from the first European production of Ghosts, August 1883

Photos from the first European production of Ghosts, August 1883