Till Damaskus (To Damascus 1898) written by August Strindberg and produced at a German theatre under the direction of Friedrich Kaysslerin in 1920

Some scenes from Till Damaskus (Nach Damaskus, first published in 1898) written by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg (1849-1912), directed by Friedrich Kayßler (1874-1945) and stage-designed by Karl Jakob Hirsch (1892-1952), played by Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur (1886-1960), Helene Fehdmer (1872-1939), and Friedrich Kayßlerin, at the theater of Volksbühne, Berlin, in November 1920.

The Emperor Jones written by Eugene O'Neill and first staged on November 1, 1920, by the Provincetown Players at the Provincetown Playhouse, New York City

Some scenes from The Emperor Jones written by the American playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888 -1953)  and first staged on November 1, 1920, by the Provincetown Players at the Provincetown Playhouse, New York City, with Charles Sidney Gilpin playing the role of Brutus Jones on stage. It ran for 204 performances and was hugely popular, touring in the States with this cast for the next two years.

Brutus Jones, played by Charles Sidney Gilpin, removes his shoes to facilitate his flight through the jungle in the original Provincetown Playhouse production of The Emperor Jones (1920)

Charles Gilpin The Emperor Jones 1920

In November 1921, the Provincetown Players presented Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones. This landmark drama marked the first time an African-American actor, Charles S. Gilpin, played the lead in a play produced by a white company.

The Whiteheaded Boy (1916) written by Lennox Robinson and produced by Noblesville High School, Indiana USA, around 1920

A scene from The Whiteheaded Boy (published in 1916) written by the Irish playwright Lennox Robinson (1886-1958) and produced by Noblesville High School, Indiana, USA, around 1920.