Saturday, 10 March 2018

The Wild Duck written by playwright Henrik Ibsen and produced by Arthur Hopkins at the Plymouth Theatre, New York City, in 1918, starring Lionel Atwill (Hjalmar Ekdal), Alla Nazimova (Hedvig), Amy Veness (Gina Ekdal) and Harry Mestayer (Gregers Werle)

Scenes from The Wild Duck written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906) and produced by Arthur Hopkins (1878 - 1950) at the Plymouth Theatre, New York City, starring Lionel Atwill (Hjalmar Ekdal), Alla Nazimova (Hedvig), Amy Veness (Gina Ekdal) and Harry Mestayer (Gregers Werle), having run for 32 performances from March 11 to April 1918.



Lionel Atwill (Hjalmar Ekdal), Alla Nazimova (Hedvig), Amy Veness (Gina Ekdal) and Harry Mestayer (Gregers Werle) in the original Broadway production of The Wild Duck 


From left: Dodson Mitchell (Werle), Amy Veness (Gina Ekdal), Alla Nazimova (Hedvig), Harry Mestayer (Gregers Werle), Lionel Atwill (Hjalmar Ekdal), Lyster Chambers (Relling) 


Act III. Relling—"She must have pressed the pistol right against her breast and fired."


Amy Veness (Gina Ekdal), Alla Nazimova (Hedvig) and Edward Connelly (Old Ekdal) 



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