Saturday, 30 December 2006

The Fairground Booth written by Alexander Blok and produced in Moscow in 1906. This production was a collaboration between the Theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold and Blok himself.

A scene from The Fairground Booth, written by the Russian lyrical poet Alexander Blok (Александр Александрович Блок 1880 - 1921) and produced at the Vera Kommissarzhevskaia Theatre in St. Petersburg on December 30, 1906. This production was a collaboration between the Theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold and Blok himself. The Russian painterNikolai Sapunov (1880-1912) designed the sets and costumes for this production. 



The design for Pierrot’s costume as sketched, most likely, by Fedor Komissarzhevsky.




Nikolai Sapunov designed the sets and costumes for Meyerhold's 1906 production of Alexander Blok's The Puppet Show. 

Wednesday, 27 December 2006

Antony & Cleopatra written by William Shakespeare and produced by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty's Theatre, London, starring Miss Constance Collier as Cleopatra and Tree as Mark Antony, Miss Darragh and Mr Robertshaw, on December 27, 1906

Scenes from Antony & Cleopatra, written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) and produced by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty's Theatre, London, with costume design by Percy Macquoid, starring Miss Constance Collier (English actress, 1878 - 1955) as Cleopatra and Tree as Mark Antony, Miss Darragh, Mr Basil Gill and Mr Robertshaw, on December 27, 1906.
 














Tuesday, 26 December 2006

Antony and Cleopatra written by William Shakespeare and produced at His Majesty's Theatre, London, 1906,

Scenes from Antony and Cleopatra written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 -1616) and produced at His Majesty's Theatre, London, on December 27, 1906, with the cast including Constance Collier as Cleopatra, Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Mark Antony, and with the stage manager of Cecil King, scene designer of Joseph Harker & T. E. Ryan, costume maker of B. J. Simmons, costume designer of Mr. Percy Macquoid.






 

Constance Collier


Sunday, 17 December 2006

Der Jude von Konstanz (The Jew of Constance, 5-act-tragedy, 1904) written by Wilhelm von Scholz and produced a the Dresdener Hoftheater in 1906

A scene from Der Jude von Konstanz (The Jew of Constance, a 5-act-tragedy, 1904), written by German playwright Wilhelm von Scholz (1874 - 1969) and produced at the Dresdner Hoftheater on December 17, 1906; the final version premiered in Cologne in 1906.