Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Salome written by the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, staged as Guest performance of the Moscow Kammertheater, at the Raimund theater, Vienna, on January 1, 1925

Scenes from Salome written by the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, staged as Guest performance of the Moscow Kammertheater, at the Raimund theater, Vienna, on January 1, 1925.





Mary Stuart (1919 ) written by John Drinkwater and produced at the Curtain Club of the University of Texas around 1925

A scene from Mary Stuart (1919 ) written by the British playwright John Drinkwater (1882-1937) and produced at the Curtain Club (a performance group and campus theatrical society) of the University of Texas, USA, around 1925.







Sunday, 15 December 2024

The Playboy Of The Western World, written by John Millington Synge (1871-1909), and performed at the The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, from 16 December 1924.

Scenes from The Playboy Of The Western World, written by the Irish playwright John Millington Synge (1871-1909), and performed at the The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, from 16 December 1924.

Cast  (Performances from 16 December 1924)
Allgood, Sara Actor as Margaret Flaherty (Pegeen Mike)
Carolan, P. J. Actor as Old Mahon
Craig, May Actor as Susan Brady
Delany, Maureen Actor as Widow Quin
Dolan, Michael J Actor as Shawn Keogh
Dolan, Michael J Director
Fitzgerald, Barry Actor as Michael James Flaherty
Lynd, Dorothy Actor as Honor Blake
McCormick, F.J. Actor as Philly O'Cullen
McCormick, F.J. Stage Manager
O Kelly, Eileen Actor as Sara Tansey
Shields, Arthur Actor as Christopher Mahon
Sullivan, Joan Actor as Nelly Reilly
Wright, Udolphus Actor as Jimmy Farrell


From Left: Sara Allgood, Barry Fitzgerald And Arthur Shields.


John Millington Synge's The Playboy Of The Western World, At The Old Abbey Theatre Dublin Ireland With Sara Allgood And Arthur Shields

Monday, 11 November 2024

Desire Under the Elms written by Eugene O'Neill and first produced at the Provincetown Playhouse, New York City, in November 1924

Scenes from Desire Under the Elms written by the American playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888 - 1953) and first produced by the Provincetown Players, featuring Mary Morris as Abbie and Walter Huston as Eben, running for total 420 performances from November 11, 1924 to October 17, 1925.

   Greenwich Village Theatre, (Nov. 11, 1924 - Jan. 1, 1925)
   Earl Carroll Theatre, (Jan. 12, 1925 - May 1925)
   George M. Cohan's Theatre, (Jun. 1, 1925 - Sep. 1925)
   Daly's 63rd Street Theatre, (Sep. 28, 1925 - Oct. 17, 1925) 








Sunday, 10 November 2024

Desire Under the Elms (1924) written by Eugene O'Neill and produced at Greenwich Village Theatre, etc. with the setting designed by Robert Edmond Jones, from Nov. 11, 1924 to Oct. 17, 1925

A scene from Desire Under the Elms (1924) written by the American playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888 -1953) and produced at Greenwich Village Theatre, etc. with the setting designed by Robert Edmond Jones, having run for 420 performances from Nov. 11, 1924 to Oct. 17, 1925.














Sunday, 13 October 2024

The Guardsman (1910) written by Molnár Ferenc and produced by the Theatre Guild, New York, in 1924-25

Some scenes from The Guardsman (comedy of marital roleplaying, first published in 1910) written by the Hungarian playwright Molnár Ferenc (1878-1952) and produced by the Theatre Guild, at the Garrick Theatre & Booth Theatre, New York City, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, having run for 248 performances from Oct. 13, 1924 to Jun. 6, 1925,  after a monumental success of his Liliom in 1921.


Act II







Lynn Fontanne & Alfred Lunt in The Guardsman - New York Garrick Theatre (1924) 










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Tuesday, 1 October 2024

Saint Joan (1923) written by George Bernard Shaw and produced at the Deutsches Theatre, Berlin, under the direction of Max Reinhardt in October 1924

A scene from Saint Joan (Die heilige Johanna, 1923) written by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) and produced at the Deutsches Theatre, Berlin, under the direction of Max Reinhardt (Austria-born theatre director, 1873 - 1943), in October 1924.