Sunday, 25 June 2023

Stage set of 1923 by Isaac Rabinovich for Lysistrata (411 BC) written by Aristophanes

Stage set by Isaac Rabinovich (1894 -1961, since 1955 the head artist of the Vakhtangov Theatre) for Lysistrata (411 BC), written by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes (c. 446 BC - c. 386 BC), and performed at Moscow Art Theater Studio in 1923.

Saturday, 24 June 2023

On ne badine pas avec l’amour (No Trifling with Love, first published in 1834), written by Alfred de Musset and produced at Comédie- Française in 1923

Stage designs for On ne badine pas avec l’amour (No Trifling with Love, a 3-act prose comedy first published in 1834), written by French playwright Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) and produced under the direction of Charles Granval at the Comédie-Française in Paris on January 8, 1923. The main cast included Georges Le Roy as Perdican, Marie Ventura as Camille, and Madeleine Renaud as Rosette. 













Friday, 2 June 2023

Gilles und Jeanne (1923), written by Georg Kaiser and produced at the Altes Theatre, Leipzig, in 1923

A scene from Gilles und Jeanne (Gilles and Joan, expressionist drama, first published in 1923), written by German playwright Georg Kaiser (1878 - 1945) and produced at the Altes Theatre, Leipzig, on June 2, 1923.



 Gilles: Lothar Koerner, Jeanne: Marg. Anton, French King: Hans Zeisse