Friday, 21 October 2016

The Storm written by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky and produced at the Leningrad Alexandrinsky Theatre, Leningrad, in 1916, with costume design for the play by Aleksandr Golovin

Stage designs for The Storm (1860) written by the Russian playwright Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886)  and produced at the Leningrad Alexandrinsky Theatre, Leningrad, in 1916, with the costumes designed by Aleksandr Golovin.




Stage design for the play "The Storm." Written by Alexander Ostrovsky. 1916.


Stage design sketch "The Ruins of the Church," created in 1916 for Ostrovsky's play "The Storm / Гроза"



First Act

Fourth Act

Second Act

Third Act

Fifth Act


Varvara. Costume design. "The Storm" by Alexander Ostrovsky


Kudryash (Curly-Haired).  Costume design. "The Storm" by Alexander Ostrovsky.


Sunday, 2 October 2016

The Queen’s Enemies (written in April 1913) written by Lord Dunsany and first produced at the Neighborhood Playhouse, New York City on November 14, 1916

   Two scenes from The Queen’s Enemies (written in April 1913) written by the Irish playwright Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) and first produced by the Gertrude Kingston Company, at the Neighborhood Playhouse and Maxine Elliott's Theatre, New York City, with the scenic design by Warren Dahler & Howard Kratz, having run for 42 performances from November 14 until December 30, 1916.

   The Neighbourhood Theatre also gave the first production of The Queen's Enemies on 14 November 1916, in a triple bill with two plays by George Bernard Shaw. Though popular with audiences there, the critics generally agreed with Alexander Woollcott that it was "Dunsany at his second best". The production nevertheless transferred to Maxine Elliott's Theatre on Broadway.







 
Alice Lewisohn (right) played the title role in The Queen's Enemies


Neighborhood Playhouse, The Queen's Enemies by Lord Dunsany, Alice Lewisohn as the Queen, Leslie Austin as unknown character

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Saturday, 1 October 2016

The Glittering Gate (1914) written by Lord Dunsany and produced at the Arts and Crafts Theater in Detroit, in 1916

A scene from The Glittering Gate (first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on April 29, 1909) written by the Irish playwright Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) and produced at the Arts and Crafts Theater in Detroit, in 1916.






The Gods of the Mountain (1914) written by Lord Dunsany and produced by the Portmanteau Theater, New York City, in 1916

A scene from The Gods of the Mountain (first produced at the Haymarket Theatre, London, on June 1, 1911) written by the Irish playwright Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) and produced by the Stuart Walker Portmanteau Theatre, New York City, having run from Nov. 27, 1916 to Jan. 6, 1917.