Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Besides his work in interpreting the Greek drama Mr. Barker has been very active in the staging of modern plays. In George Bernard Show he has found a kindred spirt it, both agreeing on freedom from conventionality and established dramatic from in the production of the present-day play. The staging of "Androgens and the Lion," which recently completed its engagement in Boston, is an example of Mr. Barker's conception of modern stage craft...
...production of Greek plays in the Stadium last spring, will speak on "Ideas in the Theatre" in Emerson D next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Barker is one of the foremost theatrical producers in England and, with George Bernard Shaw, is the leading exponent of the new drama which takes freedom of expression as its keynote. In this country his production of "Androcles and the Lion" and Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" have won for him marked attention. He comes at the joint invitation of the department of English and the department of Classics. The lecture will...
...curious belief is prevalent, especially among men who have never attended an operatic performance, that in order to enjoy the opera one must be gifted with extraordinary musical talent. But in fact, the opera, combining as it does music and drama, thus furnishing aesthetic enjoyment not only to the ear but to the eye, presents a far easier opportunity to the so-called unmusical to enjoy music, than does a concert or recital. By going to an opera and flixng his attention on the dramatic element, as he would in the case of an ordinary play, the man who knows...
There will be an open meeting of the Dramatic Club in the Territorial Room of the Union tonight at 7.30 o'clock, to which all members of the University who are interested in the drama are invited. Professor G. P. Baker '87 will speak, and plans for the fall production will be discussed...
Under the conditions of the competition, the sum of $250 of the $500 offered is paid to the University Library to be used in the purchase of books on the drama, and the remainder is given to the successful author. Mr. Craig also guarantees a production of the winning play at the Castle Square Theatre. The present play will be produced some time near the end of December...