Phèdre (1677) written by Jean Racine (1639 - 99) and produced in Prague with the stage designed by Brasterav Hoffman? around 1925

A scene from Phèdre (1677) written by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639 - 1699) and produced in Prague with the stage designed by Brasterav Hoffman? around 1925

Phèdre (1677) written by Jean Racine (1639 - 99) and produced at the Kamerny Theatre in Moscow under the direction of Tairov in 1922

Some scenes from Phèdre (1677) written by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639 - 1699) and produced at the Kamerny Theatre in Moscow under the direction of Tairov in 1922

Roar China! (1926) written by Sergei Trethyakov and produced at the Meyerhold's Theatre in 1926

A scene from Roar China! (seven scenes 1926) written by the Russian playwright Sergei Tretyakov (1892 - 1937) and first produced at the Meyerhold Theatre on January 23, 1926, and later went on foreign tour, and on tour of provincial theatres in the USSR

In 1924 Sergei Tretyakov made a lengthy visit to China, where he taught Russian literature and collected materials for some of his later publications.

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Mandat (The Warrant 1925) written by Nikolai Erdman and produced at the Meyerhold's Theatre in 1925.

Scenes from Mandat (The Warrant 1925) written by the Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman (1900 - 1970) and produced at the Meyerhold's Theatre under the direction of Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (Russian theatre director, 1874 - 1940) in 1925

the wedding scene in the last act

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Uchitel' Bubus written by Aleksei Mikhailovich Faiko and produced by the direction of V. Meyerhold in 1925

A scene from Uchitel' Bubus (1925) written by the Russian playwright Aleksei Mikhailovich Faiko (1893 - 1978) and produced under the direction of Vsevolod Meyerhold (Russian theatrical producer, 1874 - 1940) in 1925

The Long Voyage Home written by the American playwright Eugene O'Neill and produced by Provincetown Players at the Playwright's Theater, New York City, in 1917

   A scene from The Long Voyage Home written by the American playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888 - 1953) and first produced by Provincetown Players at the Playwright's Theater, New York City, on November 2, 1917.

   The Long Voyage Home was directed by Nina Moise, whom O’Neill felt would protect his plays.  Alfred Kreymborg describes his observation of a rehearsal of the play in his autobiography:  "The stage . . . was set in a villainous bar-room.  Sailors and longshoremen were roaring and cursing in the raciest of language of the sea, cuffing and mauling one another and finally turning on one of their number and sandbagging him senseless.  Were it not for the expert characterization of each individual part, and the natural sequence of the amazing plot, that business up there would remind one of an old Bowery melodrama."

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A Doll’s House, directed by Joseph De Grasse and starring Dorothy Phillips, in 1917.

   A Doll’s House,  directed by Joseph De Grasse and starring Dorothy Phillips, in 1917.

   In the US during the silent period, four film adaptations of Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House (Et dukkehjem) from 1879, were produced, all of which are considered to be lost films: a 1917 production directed by Joseph De Grasse and starring Dorothy Phillips.