Tuesday, 24 February 2004

Riders to the Sea is a play written by Irish and Literary Renaissance playwright John Millington Synge, first performed on 25 February 1904 at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin..

Riders to the Sea is a play written by Irish and Literary Renaissance playwright John Millington Synge. It was first performed on 25 February 1904 at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theater Society with Helen Laird playing Maurya. 

Riders to the Sea: A Play In One Act - Persons   
First performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, February 25th, 1904.
CAST:
MAURYA (an old woman)......  Honor Lavelle
BARTLEY (her son)..........  W. G. Fay
CATHLEEN (her daughter)....  Sarah Allgood
NORA (a younger daughter)..  Emma Vernon
MEN AND WOMEN



Abbey Theatre, 1904



Sunday, 8 February 2004

Twelfth Night written by William Shakespeare and produced by Charles Frohman at the Knickerbocker Theatre, New York City, starring Viola Allen as Viola, in 1904

   Scenes from Twelfth Night written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), produced by Charles Frohman (1856 - 1915) and directed by Ben Greet, at the Knickerbocker Theatre, New York City, starring Viola Allen as Viola, having run for 16 performances from February 8, 1904.

   On February 8, 1904, Viola Allen starred in a two-week run of Charles Frohman’s production of Twelfth Night at the Knickerbocker Theatre. On February 22 a new cast with Ben Greet’s company began another two-week run. In this second production Greet played Malvolio and Edith Wynn Matthison played Viola.











The scenery here suggests that the photograph is from Act I, Scene ii, of the play when the captain and Viola enter as survivors of the shipwreck.















Sunday, 1 February 2004

Twelfth Night, written by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), and directed by Ben Greetat, at the Knickerbocker Theatre, New York City, in February 1904.

Scenes from Twelfth Night, written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616), and directed by Ben Greetat, at  the Knickerbocker Theatre, New York City, in February 1904.





Twelfth Night
, directed by Ben Greet, Knickerbocker Theatre, New York, February 1904