Thursday, 30 September 2004

Den frånvarande (The Absent, Songs to Hulda), performed at the Svenska teatern, Stockholm, in 1904.

 Scenes from Den frånvarande (The Absent, Songs to Hulda), performed at the Svenska teatern, Stockholm, in 1904.



Astri Torsell as Dina, Louise Fahlman (1856-1918) as Gretje, Carl Barcklind as Arie Polderman and Anna Rustan (1857-1906) as Gertrui in Den frånvarande at Svenska teatern 1904. 




Monday, 27 September 2004

Scenery by the Russian scenographer Viktor A. Simov (1858-1935) for the play The Cherry Orchard written by Anton Chekhov and performed at the Moscow Art Theater in 1904.

Scenery by the Russian scenographer Viktor A. Simov (1858-1935) for The Cherry Orchard written by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904) and performed at the Moscow Art Theater in 1904.



 scene from the 4th act


Sunday, 26 September 2004

Pelléas et Mélisande (Symbolist Theatre) by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), performed at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, in 1904.

   Pelléas et Mélisande (Symbolist Theatre) by the Belgian playwrightg Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), performed with Mrs. Patrick Campbell (Mélisande) and Sarah Bernhardt (Pelléas), at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, in 1904. 

   The modern age, inaugurated by Nietzsche, Van Gogh and Strindberg, frees itself from the tyranny of the reproduction of the real and raises man on "a plane of essences". 






Saturday, 25 September 2004

The Music Master (a theatrical play), written by Charles Klein, and produced and directed by David Belasco, at the Belasco Theatre, New York city, on September 26, 1904.

   Scenes from The Music Master (a theatrical play), written by the American playwright Charles Klein (1867 – 1915) , and produced and directed by David Belasco, at the Belasco Theatre, New York city, on September 26, 1904, running  for 124 performances. 

   The three-act comedy-drama opened at the Belasco Theatre in New York on September 26, 1904. It ran for 124 performances before it was moved to the Bijou Theatre where it ran for another 511 performances over that and the next two seasons (taking summers off), before going on tour.



David Warfield in The Music Master


David Warfield in "The Music Master


"The Music Master" Act I. - Herr Von Berwig's Dinner Party


David Warfield in "The Music Master" Act III


David Warfield and Minnie Dupree in "The Music Master"




 "The Music Master" Act I. - Herr Von Berwig's Dinner Party


 "David Warfield in The Music Master", The New York Times, September 27, 1904



Friday, 24 September 2004

Medocs vinhandel (Medoc's wine shop) performed at the Dramatiska teatern, in 1904

Scenes from Medocs vinhandel (Medoc's wine shop) performed at the Dramatiska teatern (The Swedish National Theatre founded in 1788 in Stockholm), in 1904, starring Nils Edvard Personne (Swedish actor and director, 1850 – 1928) as Henri and Amanda Janson as Berthe.