Thursday, 29 July 2021

Two scenes from The Faithful Heart written by the Irish writer Monckton Hoffe (1880–1951), and produced at the Comedy Theatre in 1921.

   Two scenes from The Faithful Heart written by the Irish writer Monckton Hoffe (1880–1951), and produced at the Comedy Theatre in 1921.
   This is a  play in a prologue (set in 1899), two acts (twenty years later) and an epilogue. The prologue is set in the Reindeer Hotel, outside Southampton docks. Act one is set in "the private office of Colonel Ango in a hotel converted by the war department". Act two is set in "Colonel Ango's flat in Mount Street, London". The epilogue is again set in the Reindeer Hotel at Southampton.



(The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, December 24th, 1921)


   The Faithful Heart was also performed in the United States from Oct 10, 1922–Nov 4, 1922, at Broadhurst Theatre, New York and Maxine Elliott's Theatre, New York.

Sunday, 25 July 2021

Some scenes from The Dover Road (a three-act comedy) written by A. A. Milne (1882-1956), and produced on Broadway in 1921–22 and in the West End in 1922–23.

Some scenes from The Dover Road (a three-act comedy) written by the British playwright A. A. Milne (1882-1956), and produced on Broadway in 1921–22 and in the West End in 1922–23. 

The first production opened at the Bijou Theatre, New York on 23 December 1921 and ran for 204 performances. The play opened at the Haymarket Theatre, London, on 7 June 1922, and ran for 268 performances, until 13 January 1923.












Thursday, 15 July 2021

Stage set design of 1921 by Ludwig Sievert (1887 - 1966) for Die tote Stadt (The Dead City, three-act opera, 1920) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Stage set design of 1921 by Ludwig Sievert (1887 - 1966) for Die tote Stadt (The Dead City, three-act opera, 1920) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (American composer, 1897 - 1957)




Thursday, 8 July 2021

Stage set by John Heartfield for Die Weber (The Weavers) written by Gerhart Hauptmann, and produced at Grosses Schauspeilhaus, Berlin, in 1921

Stage sets by John Heartfield (visual artist, 1891 -1 968) for Die Weber (The Weavers) written by the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann (1862 - 1946), and produced at Grosses Schauspeilhaus, Berlin, in 1921.






Wednesday, 7 July 2021

Stage set by Robert Edmond Jones for Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, designed in 1921

Stage set by Robert Edmond Jones (1887 -1954) for Macbeth written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 -1616), designed in 1921.






Sunday, 27 June 2021

Agents (based on the leading Yiddish author and playwright Sholom Aleichem) and produced with the stage-set made by Marc Chagall, at State Jewish Chamber Theatre, in 1921

Scenes from the play Agents (based on the leading Yiddish author and playwright Sholom Aleichem) and produced with the stage-set made by Marc Chagall, at State Jewish Chamber Theatre, in 1921.  Marc Chagall was to become actively involved in the theatre movements of both large and small forms.



Sketch for a set in the play Agents based on Sholom Gouache, Paris, 1921




Friday, 18 June 2021

Marriage on the Eiffel Tower (Les Mariés de la tour Eiffel 1921) written by Jean Cocteau and produced at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, on June 18, 1921

Scenes from Marriage on the Eiffel Tower (Les Mariés de la tour Eiffel 1921) written by the French playwright Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963) and produced at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, with set design by Irene Lagut and the costumes & masks by Jean Hugo, on June 18, 1921.