Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dramatic Club will give its next performance of the three plays "Hagoromo", "The Blind", and "Wurzel-Flumery", this afternoon at the Wilbur Theatre at 2:15. It will be the only production of the three plays in Boston and will be followed by only one more performance--that at Wellesley on Saturday evening...
...international reputation. But what it loses in not venturing far from the center of culture, it seems to be gaining in the scope of the plays which it presents. Tonight, at its first spring performance, will be seen a Japanese "Noh" play, an English farce, and Maeterlinck's "The Blind." This year, as last, its audience can be assured at least of a cosmopolitan enough entertainment...
...Milne, author of "Mr. Pim Passes By," which recently met with success in New York, will be staged in a sunny English morning room, with walls of yellow and orange, making an attractive setting for the furniture, which is upholstered in blue. For Maeterlinck's "The Blind," the dark, glommy scenery, after the style of Arthur Reckham's executions, will be used. The lighting effects will tend to throw the actors into sharp silhouette...
...costumes for "Wurzel Flummery" and "The Blind" are being designed by D. M. Oenslager '23, assisted by a Boston artist, while the original "Noh" costumes in the Museum of Fine Arts are being copied for "Hagoromo...
...third play, "The Blind", by Maurice Maeterlinck, is remarkable for the dominating note of fear expressed by the twelve blind men and women who are lost in a wood. Then, as evening comes and the chill of night fills the wood, not only the players seem chilled by the cold but the audience itself is irresistibly affected, so great is the author's power of vividly reproducing human sensation...