Salome (1893) written by Oscar Wilde, and produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, with music by Richard Strauss, starring Mademoselle Fremstad as Salome, on January 22, 1907

Scenes from the operatic adaptation of Salome (1893) written by the British playwright Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), and produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, with music by Richard Strauss, starring Mademoselle Fremstad as Salome, on January 22, 1907.

Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare and produced in the Deutshces Theater, Berlin, under the direction of Max Reinhardt with Alexander Moissi as Romeo and Eibenshutz as Juliet in 1907

Scenes from Romeo and Juliet (Romeo und Julie) written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) and produced in the Deutsches Theater, Berlin, under the direction of Max Reinhardt with Alexander Moissi (1879-1935) as Romeo and Camilla Eibenschütz as Juliet in 1907.

Riders to the Sea written by John Millington Synge, and performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, from 12 January 1907.

A scene from Riders to the Sea written by the Irish playwright John Millington Synge, and performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, from 12 January 1907.

Cast  (Performances from 12 January 1907)

Allgood, Annie Actor as Women

Allgood, Sara Actor as Maurya

Fay, William George Actor as Bartley

Kerrigan, J.M. Actor as Men

O Dempsey, Brigit Actor as Nora

O'Neill, Máire (Molly) Actor as Cathleen

O'Sullivan, Alice Actor as Women

Power, Ambrose Actor as Men

Wright, Udolphus Actor as Men

Annie Allgood, Sarah Allgood, and Mile O'Neill (as Molly Allgood)

The Fairground Booth written by Alexander Blok and produced in Moscow in 1906. This production was a collaboration between the Theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold and Blok himself.

   A scene from The Fairground Booth written by the Russian lyrical poet Alexander Blok (Александр Александрович Блок 1880 - 1921) and produced at the Vera Kommissarzhevskaia Theatre in St. Petersburgin, on December 30, 1906. This production was a collaboration between the Theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold and Blok himself. 

   Nikolai Sapunov (Russian painter, 1880 - 1912) designed the sets and costumes for this production. This sketch is for the beginning of the play, and depicts the mystics sitting at a table in the center of the internal stage. He painted sets for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow based on the designs by Korovin (1901–1902), as well as for Moscow Art Theatre (from 1904), the sets and costumes for Meyerhold's 1906 production of Alexander Blok's The Puppet Show.

   Alexander Blok wrote The Puppet Show, the first of his "lyrical dramas" in 1906. The play debuted at the end of that year at the Vera Kommissarzhevskaia Theatre in St. Petersburg by Vsevolod Meyerhold who also played the role of Pierrot. The music for the first production was composed by Mikhail Kuzmin.

The design for Pierrot’s costume as sketched, most likely, by Fedor Komissarzhevsky.

Nikolai Sapunov designed the sets and costumes for Meyerhold's 1906 production of Alexander Blok's The Puppet Show. This sketch is for the beginning of the play, and depicts the mystics sitting at a table in the center of the internal stage. In the actual production, cardboard cutouts were used to hide the mystics' bodies, and only their heads and hands could be seen through holes in the cardboard. Pierrot is sitting slumped to the side of the mystics.

Antony & Cleopatra written by William Shakespeare and produced by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty's Theatre, London, starring Miss Constance Collier as Cleopatra and Tree as Mark Antony, Miss Darragh and Mr Robertshaw, on December 27, 1906

Some scenes from Antony & Cleopatra written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) and produced by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty's Theatre, London, with costume design by Percy Macquoid, starring Miss Constance Collier (English actress, 1878 - 1955) as Cleopatra and Tree as Mark Antony, Miss Darragh, Mr Basil Gill and Mr Robertshaw, on December 27, 1906.

 

Antony and Cleopatra written by William Shakespeare and produced at His Majesty's Theatre, London, 1906,

Scenes from Antony and Cleopatra written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 -1616) and produced at His Majesty's Theatre, London, on December 27, 1906, with the cast including Constance Collier as Cleopatra, Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Mark Antony, and with the stage manager of Cecil King, scene designer of Joseph Harker & T. E. Ryan, costume maker of B. J. Simmons, costume designer of Mr. Percy Macquoid.

 

Constance Collier

Der Jude von Konstanz (The Jew of Constance, 5-act-tragedy, 1904) written by Wilhelm von Scholz and produced a the Dresdener Hoftheater in 1906

A scene from Der Jude von Konstanz (The Jew of Constance, 5-act-tragedy, 1904) written by the German playwright Wilhelm von Scholz (1874 - 1969) and produced at the Dresdener Hoftheater on December 17, 1906, the final version premiered in Cologne in 1906