Theatre Arts, Volume 2Sheldon Cheney, Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs Theatre Arts, Incorporated, 1918 |
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... called upon us for scenery . Both of us , I think , had never been nearer the stage than an orchestra chair ; within a season we had designed settings for every type of play , - comedies , pantomimes , fantasies and farce . Rollo Peters ...
... called upon us for scenery . Both of us , I think , had never been nearer the stage than an orchestra chair ; within a season we had designed settings for every type of play , - comedies , pantomimes , fantasies and farce . Rollo Peters ...
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... called realistic , by which I rather mean the intellectual , the drama which takes representatives of daily life , and uses them to present problems of our contemporary society . That this is a legitimate and important type of drama no ...
... called realistic , by which I rather mean the intellectual , the drama which takes representatives of daily life , and uses them to present problems of our contemporary society . That this is a legitimate and important type of drama no ...
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... called realistic plays in the commercial theatre are sentimental twaddle or melodramatic farce . They do not belong to the little company of dramas which the experimental theatre can afford to know . But it will not do , it seems to me ...
... called realistic plays in the commercial theatre are sentimental twaddle or melodramatic farce . They do not belong to the little company of dramas which the experimental theatre can afford to know . But it will not do , it seems to me ...
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... called the drama of instinct as opposed to the drama of theory , the play with a special intellectual idea . The latter is far more difficult to do well . It was not long ago that every play was necessarily based upon sexual ...
... called the drama of instinct as opposed to the drama of theory , the play with a special intellectual idea . The latter is far more difficult to do well . It was not long ago that every play was necessarily based upon sexual ...
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... called ' post - Belasco . ' Not to be unjust to the National Theatres , I suppose I ought to say that this sad state of affairs is due to the war . Of course the war has much to answer for . On the other hand , it has one or two things ...
... called ' post - Belasco . ' Not to be unjust to the National Theatres , I suppose I ought to say that this sad state of affairs is due to the war . Of course the war has much to answer for . On the other hand , it has one or two things ...
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Página 85 - new" scenery, much has been said and written, and most of it beside the point. One's position in the matter is entirely determined by which mind he thinks the stage has to do with, the conscious or the unconscious. Realistic settings are designed wholly for conscious appeal. An attempt at exact reproduction challenges the conscious mind of the audience to comparison. Comparison of the scene as it is offered with the auditor's conscious knowledge of what it is supposed to reproduce. If a Childs Restaurant...
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