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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first presentation to the American public of the work of Johann Sigurjonsson by the 47 Workshop in Jordan Hall tonight is full of significance. This play, "Eywind of the Hills," based as it is upon the life and customs of Iceland, introduces a novel note into the American theatre. The play had its first representation in Copenhagen only a few years ago, and never before has any play by this new writer been produced in this country...
...public performance of this play indicates the wide scope of activity of the 47 Workshop. Though designed primarily as a laboratory for the testing by actual production of the plays written in Professor Baker's courses on the drama, it also aims to give any unusual or important dramatic pieces which the public would not ordinarily have the opportunity of seeing. The present play was felt to be such a work. The significance of its production is enlarged by the fact that the play was undertaken at the request of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, of which Professor W. H. Schofield...
...first public performance in America of "Eyvind of the Hills," the Icelandic drama, will be given by the 47 Workshop in Jordan Hall, Boston, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The play is being put on by the Workshop at the invitation of the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Scandinavian societies of Boston. It is in four acts by Johann Sigurjonsson, and, based upon historical incidents, it centers around the love story of a victim of the peculiar outlaw code of Iceland...
...play was produced before a Workshop audience on January 26 and 27 and made such a favorable impression that arrangements for a public performance were started at once...
This is the first opportunity that undergraduates have had for seeing a Workshop play...