Word: staging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Psychological" drama by the professor of French at Ann Arbor, entitled "A Social Bargain," is shortly to be put upon the New York stage...
...recent production of Aristophanes' comedy, the "Birds," in Cambridge, England, seems from all reports to have been a most gratifying success. The mere labor and care that must be employed in putting one of the old Greek plays on the stage is really enormous, and the successful completion of so great a task must be a source of congratulation to all engaged in it. The uniform success which has greeted the production of all the Greek plays brought out in England leads us to ask whether it would not be possible to give another play here at Harvard. The "OEdipus...
...audience in constant laughter by his comic appearance and his ridiculous "business." The intelligence with which every actor contrived to render his own part an essential feature in the fun of the play was the most striking feature of the performance. Euelpides, for instances, when he was on the stage at one time without speaking, essayed his new wings in a series of extremely ridiculous attempts at flight from the top of the alter, each ending, of course, in disastrous collapse. The Birds were constantly engaged in some comical tricks, one of them going so far so to peck...
...heads of the actors; these were swans, a spoon-ball, and a gorgeous flamingo. The bright colors and picturesque attitudes of this chorus made the 'Birds' a far more brilliant spectacle than either the 'CEdipus' or the 'Ajax.' The final scene was especially striking. On each side of the stage the Birds were grouped like infantry prepared to receive cavalry, the front rank crouching close to the ground, wrapped in their wings, the next row standing with their wings stretched out from the shoulders, and those behind extending their wings into the air; in the centre Peithetairos and Basileia, seated...
...utmost limit of this stage of his experience may be but twenty years ago, and yet he may remember a few things which sound curiously now-a-days Blackheath was then, as now, the great centre of metropolitan foot-ball, although for every match played then on a Saturday afternoon there are now half-a-dozen. Those were the days of "hacking," and scenes which were frequent enough then, nay, which were almost inevitable, would not be tolerated now in the rowdiest of grounds. It was then by no means an uncommon sight to see the ball flying away...