Scenes from Princess Turandot produced by the Russian theatre-director Evgeniy Vakhtangov (1883 1922) under the stage-direction of Boris Zakhava (1896 -1976) and Yuriy Zavadskiy (1894 - 1969), in 1922.
Including 400 Drama Pictures Taken in Europe and America from 1890 to 1930 , Preserved and Published in Japan around 1930, and Many Other Antique Photos I Have Gathered
Saturday, 25 June 2022
Gas (written in 1919 and published in 1920) by Georg Kaiser and produced at the Boloshoi Drama Theater, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1922
A scene from Gas (written in 1919 and published in 1920) by the German playwright Georg Kaiser and produced at the Boloshoi Drama Theater, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1922.
Friday, 17 June 2022
The Death of Tarelkin written by Aleksander Sukhova Kobylin under the direction of Vsevolod Meyerhold at the Meyerhold Theatre in 1922
A scene from The Death of Tarelkin written by the Russian playwright Aleksander Sukhova Kobylin (1817 - 1903) under the direction of Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874 - 1940) at the Meyerhold Theatre with the “meat mincer” setting designed by Varvara Stepanova in 1922.
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Roza i Krest (The Rose and the Cross 1913) written by Aleksandr Blok and produced in Prague around 1922
A scene from Roza i Krest (The Rose and the Cross, based on a medieval French legend, 1912) written by the Russian playwright Aleksandr Blok (1880 - 1921) and produced in Prague, Czech, around 1922. For its premiere it went through more than 200 rehearsals, but it was not staged.
He Who Gets Slapped (1915) written by Leonid N. Andreyev and produced at the Modern Theatre in Vienna around 1920
A scene from He Who Gets Slapped (Der Mann, der die Ohrfeigen bekam, 4-act-play, 1915) written by the Russian playwright Leonid N. Andreyev (1871 - 1919) and produced at the Modern Theatre in Vienna around 1920. This play was first staged in Russia in 1916, and in America in 1922.
Friday, 10 June 2022
Le Cocu Magnifique (1921) written by Fernand Crommelynck, and directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold with a stage design by Lyubov Popova in 1922
A scene from Le Cocu Magnifique (published in 1921) written by the Belgian playwright Fernand Crommelynck (1886 - 1970), and directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold (Russian theater director 1874 - 1940) with a stage designed by Lyubov Popova (Russian female avant-garde artist 1889 - 1924) in 1922.
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| This is the scene of 1828 production. |
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