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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Workshop will produce as its second set of performances of the present season an Icelandic drama in four acts called "Eyvind of the Hills," by Johann Sigurjonsson. This play is one of two published in a single volume this fall by the American Scandinavian Foundation of New York. The play was originally written in Danish and the American translation has been made by Henninge K. Schanche. There will be two performances of the production in Agassiz House Theatre on Friday, January 26, and Saturday, January...
Professor Baker has chosen to produce this drama for a number of reasons. The American-Scandinavian Foundation is very anxious to have it staged in America and the Workshop will be the first to present on this continent a masterpiece which has been seen in Denmark, Norway, Germany and England. This more than any other of Sigurjonsson's writings has made him famous as one of the younger Icelandic and, indeed, Euopean dramatists. Moreover, Professor Baker sees in this stern and relentless tragedy of the North an unusual opportunity for testing the powers of the Workshop's company of actors...
...staging of this play presents one of the most difficult problems which the Workshop production and artistic forces have had to deal with since the inception of the organization. The scenery will be designed by Mr. Huger Elliott and Mr. Henry Hunt Clark, of the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts...
...Such scientific experiments carried on with exact instruments seem world-far from the Christmas request of The Fatherland; and yet I cannot send a better message than the results of these researches in the psychological workshop. We feel that soon the World Christmas Tree will gleam with its myriads of peaceful candle flames; at last peace on earth seems near. And yet we all hardly look forward toward such a holy night for warring mankind without the secret fear that unholy struggle may soon disrupt the peoples of the globe again, and that the new peace may be merely...
...Workshop will produce only original plays this season, the object being to discover the faults of these plays, promising as they are, by actual production before a critical audience. Now that the Toy Theatre of Boston has abandoned its policy of amateur productions, the 47 Workshop will be the only successful organization in Boston or vicinity devoted entirely to the production of plays written and acted entirely by amateurs...