Word: staged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many days The continued hard work had its effect upon the players and some of them were so badly off that the game as scheduled with the Bergen Points was cancelled. The Princetonian says: "The trip has been very successful in every way, and never at this stage of the season did a Princeton nine have brighter prospects...
...holiday, and at the conclusion of the matinee witnessed by them, they gave loud calls for the author. In the Boston production at the Hollis Street Theatre, there will be shown as perfect a reproduction of the ancient Greek theatre of Sophocles time as is possible on a modern stage. Yet under Mr. David Belasco's stage management, the "Electra" will have a complete theatrical finish, with a thoroughness of stage effects, lights, casting and ensemble never before attempted in a classic play. The music and choral movements are as near to the Greek models as possible. The latter especially...
...chorus and its duties, the lecturer said that the limiting of the number of actors to three had one important result: it insured that the parts would be well acted. In should be mentioned that in addition to the principal actors, "mute persons" could be brought on the stage. On account of their wearing masks, the actors could not use facial expressions, but relied utterly upon action to enforce the meaning. The costuming lacked the variety of the modern stage. The dress of the tragic actor was always the same, and in comedy there was not much more variety...
...very large audience assembled in the lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon to listen to Professor J. W. White's lecture on the Greek stage. Professor White said that of all the monuments of ancient Athens which have survived the ravages of time none is more interesting than the theatre of Dionysus. For many years the site of this theatre was not known. The greatest share of the credit of its discovery and subse quent excavation is due to the Germans. The theatre is at the southeastern extremity of the Acropolis. It was constructed on the plan...
...most interesting portioh of the ruins is the wall, about thirty-five feet long, which runs along a portion of the front of the stage. It is interesting because it appeals to the eye, being decorated with groups of sculptures in high relief representing Bacchnalian scenes...