Theatre History II

1. Technology: Late 1800s

2. The Whip: Mansion Exterior

3. The Whip: Mansion Interior

4. The Whip: Train Crash

5. Hydraulic Ramps at Drury Lane Theatre

6. Electric Bridge at Drury Lane Theatre

7. The Great Ruby: Balloon Scene

8. More Balloon

9. Sins of Society: Ship Scene

10. Sins of Society: Church Scene

11. Naturalism
“slice of life”
“fourth wall” realism
photorealism

12. Emile Zola

13. Zola: A Love Episode
CHAPTER I.
The night-lamp with a bluish shade was burning on the
chimney-piece, behind a book, whose shadows plunged more
than half the chamber in darkness. There was a quiet gleam
of light cutting across the round table and the couch,
streaming over the heavy folds of the velvet curtains, and
imparting an azure hue to the mirror of the rosewood
wardrobe placed between the two windows. The quiet
simplicity of the room, the blue tints on the hangings, furniture,
and carpet, served at this hour of night to invest everything
with the delightful vagueness of cloudland. Facing the
windows, and within sweep of the shadow, loomed the velvet-
curtained bed, a black mass, relieved only by the white of the
sheets. With hands crossed on her bosom, and breathing
lightly, lay Helene, asleep—mother and widow alike
personified by the quiet unrestraint of her attitude.

14. Theatre Antoine

15. Andre Antoine

16. Antoine’s Staging of Zola’s La Terre (1900)

17. Otto Brahm
& Freie Buhne

18. Gerhardt Hauptmann

19. Hauptmann
& The Weavers

20. The Weavers

21. The Weavers

22. August Strindberg

23. Miss Julie

24. Recent Production of A Dream Play

25. College Production of Ghost Sonata

26. Strindberg: Pelican

27. Too Cool Not to Include

28. Arthur Schnitzler

29. Schnitzler & La Ronde

30. David Hare’sThe Blue Room

31. David Belasco

32. Belasco’s
The Golden Girl of
the West 1905

33. Belasco’s Staging of
The Return of Peter Grimm 1907

34. The Independent Theatre Movement

35. Le Theatre Libre

36. Le Theatre Libre
and
Toulouse
Lautrec

37. Théâtre du Grand Guignol: Blood, Guts, & Nudity

38. "At one performance, six people
passed out when an actress,
whose eyeball was just gouged
out, re-entered the stage,
revealing a gooey, blood-
encrusted hole in her skull.
Backstage, the actors
themselves calculated their
success according to the
evening's faintings. During one
play that ended with a realistic
blood transfusion, a record was
set: fifteen playgoers had lost
consciousness. Between
sketches, the cobble-stoned
alley outside the theatre was
frequented by hyperventilating
couples and vomiting
individuals."

39. Vieux Columbier

40. Vieux Columbier

41. Vieux Columbier

42. Jouvet as
Aguecheek in
Twelfth Night

43. Program for
Thomas Otway’s
Venice Preserved

44. Vuilliard Play (Sets by Maurice Denis)

45. Early Departures
from Realism
Symbolism
Art-for-Art’s Sake
Constructivism and
Biomechanics

46. Symbolism:
Stephane Mallarme

47. Maurice Maeterlinck

48. Maeterlinck’s Blue Swan in Moscow 1908

49. Modern Production of Maeterlinck’s Les Aveugles

50. Glyndebourne’s
Production of Pelleas
and Melisande

51. Oscar Wilde: Art-for-Art’s Sake

52. Oscar Wilde

53. Original Earnest 1895

54. Original Earnest 1895

55. Wilde in and as
Salome

56. J. M. Barrie and Peter Pan

57. Finkelstein’s Design for Peter Pan

58. George Bernard Shaw

59. Shaw’s Man and Superman

60. Drew’s Arms and the Man

61. Gilbert & Sullivan: Operetta

62. Patience, The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance

63. Yeoman of the Guard, Savoy Theatre

64. William Poel’s Measure for Measure 1893

65. Harley Granville Barker

66. Barker’s Midsummer

67. Barker’s
Midsummer

68. Barker’s Midsummer

69. Poel as God in
Everyman

70. Beerbohm Tree’s Midsummer

71. Alfred Jarry

72. Jarry’s Ubu Roi

73. Theatre l’Oeuvre’s Ubu

74. Benjamin Franklin Wedekind

75. University of Waterloo’s Spring Awakening

76. University of Waterloo’s Spring Awakening

77. Spring Awakening at U Mass

78. Spring Awakening
at Virginia Tech

79. Wedekind’s Lulu
Germany 1988

80. Max Reinhardt

81. Reinhardt’s Midsummer

82. Reinhardt’s Everyman

83. Reinhardt’s A Servant of Two Masters (1926)

84. Reinhardt’s The Miracle

85. Reinhardt: Page from a Regiebuch

86. Meyerhold as Pierrot

87. Meyerhold (Photo from Arrest)

88. Meyerhold’s
The Dawns 1920

89. Model for a Meyerhold Production

90. Biomechanics and Acting

91. Meyerhold’s Staging of The Bedbugs

92. Costumes for The Bedbugs

93. Meyerhold’s Design for The Magnificent Cuckoo

94. Meyerhold’s Cuckoo

95. Constructivist Costumes for Zangesi

96. Non-Realistic Designers
Adolphe Appia
Gordon Craig
Robert Edmund Jones

97. Adolphe Appia

98. Appia’s Design for Parcifal

99. Appia’s Tristan and Isolde 1896

100. Appia’s “Rhythmic Spaces”

101. More “Rhythmic Spaces”

102. More “Rhythmic Spaces”

103. Gordon Craig

104. Craig’s Hamlet

105. Craig’s Macbeth

106. Craig’s Scene

107. Craig Designs

108. Craig’s Sketch
of Macbeth

109. Craig and
Ubermarionettes

110. Craig’s
Hamlet 1909

111. Craig’s Hamlet at MAT

112. A Craig Stage Design

113. Robert Edmund Jones’ Macbeth