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...Excerpt: Annajanska is frankly a bravura piece. The modern variety theatre demands for its ?turns? little plays called sketches, to last twenty minutes or so, and to enable some favorite performer to make a brief but dazzling appearance on some barely passable dramatic pretext. Miss Lillah M...

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...RGE BERNARD SHAW Annajanska is frankly a bravura piece. The modern variety theatre demands for its “turns” little plays called sketches, to last twent... ... Dr Johnson might have unbent, to de- vise a turn for the Coliseum variety theatre. Not that we would set down the art of the variety theatre as somet... ...ndulgence as three novices fresh from the awful legitimacy of the highbrow theatre. Well, Miss McCarthy and Mr Ricketts justified them- selves easily ...

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...Excerpt: I wish to express my gratitude for certain good offices which Augustus secured for me in January,1917. I had been invited to visit the theatre of war in Flanders by the Commanderin- Chief: an invitation which was, under the circumstances, a summons to duty. Thus I had occasion to spend some days in procuring the necessary passport and other official faciliti...

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...h Augustus secured for me in January,1917. I had been invited to visit the theatre of war in Flanders by the Commander- in-Chief: an invitation which ... ...trous. Save for the satisfaction of being able to laugh at Augustus in the theatre, nothing, as far as I know, came of my dramatic reduction of him to... ...ok it. Augustus Does His Bit was performed for the first time at the Court Theatre in London by the Stage Society on the 21st January, 1917, with Lall... ...e shut up everything. The picture gallery is shut. The museum is shut. The theatres and picture shows is shut: I haven’t seen a movie picture for six ...

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........................................................................................................................................... 40 AFTER THE THEATRE............................................................................................................................................ 46 A LADY?S STORY ..............................................................

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................................................................ 40 AFTER THE THEATRE ...................................................................... ...everything in their minds and souls! They sing, and have a passion for the theatre, and draw, and talk a great deal, and drink, and they don’t have he... ...ow tell me what further evil can happen to me? 46 Anton Chekhov AFTER THE THEATRE NADYA ZELENIN HAD just come back with her mamma from the theatre wh... ...treets in town without noticing the weather, or were getting ready for the theatre, or sitting in their studies over a book. Oh, how much they would h... ...hion, they called her an actress and a singer. I used to be devoted to the theatre, and therefore this fraudulent pretense of being an ac- tress made ... ...tears, her cheeks turned paler and paler. And no won- der — she was at the theatre for the first time in her life. “How well they act! how splendidly!... ...xceptional people! In the evening the police captain and Masha were at the theatre again. A week later the actors dined at the police captain’s again,... ... day either to dinner or supper. Masha became more and more devoted to the theatre, and went there every evening. She fell in love with the tragedian.... ...ould go to Sibe- ria, let alone getting married! When you marry and have a theatre of your own, take me into your company. I shan’t be master then, yo...

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...: I had better explain why, in this little piece d?occasion, written for a performance in aid of the funds of the project for establishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady with Mistress Mary Fitton. First, let me say that I do not contend that the Dark Lady was Mary Fitton, because when the case in Mary?s favor (or against her...

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...rformance in aid of the funds of the project for estab- lishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady with M... ... his actual social position as a penni- less tradesman’s son taking to the theatre for a livelihood, and his own conception of himself as a gentleman ... ...r their art. When Shakespear was forced to write popular plays to save his theatre from ruin, he did it mutinously, calling the plays “A s You Like It... ...is life in a glow of enthusiastic sat- isfaction with mankind and with the theatre, which is all that Mr Harris can allege in support of his broken-he... ...is more complete than its levity suggests. Alas! its appeal for a National Theatre as a monument to Shakespear failed to touch the very stupid people ... ...pear failed to touch the very stupid people who cannot see that a National Theatre is worth having for the sake of the National Soul. I had unfortunat... ...sterity? The Dark Lady of The Sonnets was first performed at the Haymarket Theatre, on the afternoon of Thursday, the 24th November 1910, by Mona Lime... ...o bribe the warder. I gave her the wherewithal: four tickets for the Globe Theatre. THE BEEFEATER. Plague on her! She gave me two only. THE MAN. [deta... ...yhouse, or, if I may make bold to coin a scholarly name for it, a National Theatre, for the better instruction and gracing of your Majesty’s subjects....

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...n less well known to the general public, but important in the world of the theatre. The publication of a book by so many famous contributors would be ... ...n to procure a licence from the Censor before performing a play; but every theatre lease is in future to be construed as if it contained a clause givi... ...his order must not be recorded to his disadvantage on the li- cence of his theatre, nor may it be given as a judicial reason for cancelling that licen... ...ing practice, except that they may be punished, have the licences of their theatres endorsed and can- celled, and have the performance stopped pending... ... tent of votes enough to turn the scale in some con- stituencies, that the theatre is the gate of hell, to be tolerated, as vice is tolerated, only be... ... extension of the authority of teetotaller-led local governing bodies over theatres. Fifth, there were the playwrights, without political power, but w... ... prominent manager who declares that the censorship is the mainstay of the theatre, and his relations with the Lord Chamberlain and the Exam- iner of ... ...their evidence when once the reader has the clue. 9 Shaw The manager of a theatre is a man of business. He is not an expert in politics, religion, ar... ...conscientious responsibility for the character of the entertainment at his theatre. Under such circumstances, managers would be more than human if the...

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... actual humanity instead of with doctri- naire romanticism. Nothing in the theatre is staler than the situation of husband, wife and lover, or the fun... ...c had he not accepted engagements to appear for a season in the vaudeville theatres [the American equivalent of our music halls], where he played How ... ...d to Her Husband compara- tively unhampered by the press censorship of the theatre, or by that sophistication of the audience through press sugges- ti... ...ty council- lors who suddenly displayed such concern for the morals of the theatre were either Mrs Warren’s landlords, or employers of women at starva... ... ter, to keep a vigilant eye on gentlemen who will stand any- thing at the theatre except a performance of Mrs Warren’s Profession, and who assert in ... ...s watch again when She comes in, much flustered. As she is dressed for the theatre; has spoilt, petted ways; and wears many diamonds, she has an air o... ... loss of the poems compelled us to take action at once. We shall go to the theatre still; but we shall leave your diamonds here; for we cannot afford ... ...ing to you. What was I saying—oh yes. Instead of coming back here from the theatre, you will come with me to my home—now and henceforth our home— and ... ...g] Teddy isn’t in yet. HE. Well, let us take that calmly. Let us go to the theatre as if nothing had happened. and tell him when we come back. Now or ...

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...mphant amusement of startling all but the stron- gest-headed of the London theatre critics clean out of the practice of their profession. No author wh... ...reflects any consternation among the general public. Anybody can upset the theatre critics, in a turn of the wrist, by substituting for the romantic c... ... out doubt of the result; only, it must not be the censorship of the minor theatre critic, nor of an innocent court official like the Lord Chamberlain... ...d would be revolted by many of our fashionable plays. They would leave the theatre convinced that the Plymouth Brother who still regards the playhouse... ...eans nothing. I have pointed out again and again that the influence of the theatre in England is growing so great that whilst private conduct, religio... ..., science, politics, and morals are becoming more and more theatrical, the theatre itself remains impervious to common sense, religion, science, polit... ...on sense, religion, science, politics, and morals. That is why I fight the theatre, not with pamphlets and sermons and trea- tises, but with plays; an... ...n London to take its conscience and its brains with it when it goes to the theatre, instead of leaving them at home with its prayer-book as it does at... ...dingly. Now let us consider how such recruiting can be encour- aged by the theatre. Nothing is easier. Let the King’s Reader of Plays, backed by the P...

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... for me. Fanny’s First Play was performed for the first time at the Little Theatre in the Adelphi, London, on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 19th 1... ...ns his mouth. Very witty and all that. Pretends to turn up his nose at the theatre and says people make too much fuss about art [the Count is extremel... ... they can only be got to know about it. Besides, Bannal’s knowledge of the theatre is an inside knowledge. We know him; and he knows us. He knows the ... ...est art nowadays; that the author wrote it in the proper way for repertory theatres of the most superior kind—you know the kind of plays I mean? TROTT... ... and excitement there. I walked to Leicester Square; and went into a great theatre. MRS KNOX. [horrified] A theatre! MARGARET . Yes. Lots of other wom... ...in yourself, you dont need to seek it outside, spending money on drink and theatres and bad company, and being miserable after all. You can sit at hom... ...nd. Nowhere else in the world but in England could I have met at a Variety Theatre a charming young lady of per- fect respectability, and enjoyed a da... ...Is it a comedy or a tragedy? Is it a farce or a melodrama? Is it repertory theatre tosh, or really straight paying stuff? GUNN. Cant you tell from see...

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...d her straight out that she would have enough to eat, but that fine clothes, theatres, balls — she would have none of, at any rate not till later on, ... ...this, but I raised the sum by thirty kopecks a day. It was the same with the theatre. I told her before marriage that she would not go to the the atr... ...he would not go to the the atre, and yet I decided once a month to go to he theatre, and in a decent way, to the stalls. We went together. We went th... ...say, “he is showing his strength of will.” She suddenly refused to go to the theatre. And more and more often an ironical look… . And I was more silen... ...t be ing it is humiliating. This is what happened. In an interval, at a theatre, I went out to the refreshment bar. A hussar called A——— came in ... ...was “A Gentle Spirit” Dostoevsky 36 impressed by the surroundings, by the theatre: I was doubt ful how I should succeed and whether it would be st...

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...eGaribaldi. Post and Telegraph office in Corso Vittorio Emmanuele, next to theatre. Photographs at Seghena’s (cheaper in Flo- rence). Diligence (1 lir... ...rhood of women. Why should you not make friends with your neighbour at the theatre or in the train, when you know and he knows that feminine criticism... ...o poor to keep a carriage. Occasionally you will take them to the caffe or theatre, and immediately all your wonted acquain- tance there desert you, e... ...do there?” continued Harriet, with a frown. “There is a caffe. A prison. A theatre. A church. Walls. A view.” “Not for me, thank you,” said Harriet, a... ...tired, we want a change of topic. We want relaxation. We want to go to the theatre.” “Theatres here? And at such a moment?” “We should hardly enjoy it... .... It would be most unsuitable—almost irreverent. Besides all that, foreign theatres are notorious. Don’t you remember those letters in the ‘Church Fam... ...mpanions and the occasional contrari- ness of himself. He had been to this theatre many years before, on the occasion of a performance of “La Zia di C... ...nd chooses to pass it by. But it attains to beauty’s confidence. This tiny theatre of Monteriano spraddled and swaggered with the best of them, and th... ...ming picture, as charm- ing a picture as he had seen for years—the hot red theatre; outside the theatre, towers and dark gates and mediaeval walls; be...

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... late, smoking long porcelain pipes, not coming in at night till after the theatre, and haunting cafes. The father-in-law died, leaving little; he was... ...aubert ried man, lying in his bed as but now, and crossing the opera- tion theatre as of old. The warm smell of poultices mingled in his brain with th... ...d never had the curiosity , he said, while he lived at Rouen, to go to the theatre to see the actors from Paris. He could neither swim, nor fence, nor... ...re they doing now? In town, with the noise of the streets, the buzz of the theatres and the lights of the ballroom, they were living lives where the h... ...nd the steps of carriages lowered with much noise before the peristyles of theatres. She took in “La Corbeille,” a lady’s journal, and the “Sylphe des... ...hop in a big town—at Rouen, for example, overlooking the harbour, near the theatre—he walked up and down all day from the mairie to the church, sombre... ...er a brass claw in arabesque. They were airs played in other places at the theatres, sung in drawing rooms, danced to at night under lighted lustres, ... ...s said brings you back to the fixed centre of a common sympathy. The Paris theatres, titles of novels, new quadrilles, and the world they did not know... ...king of a troupe of Spanish dancers who were expected shortly at the Rouen theatre. “ Are you going?” she asked. “If I can,” he answered. Had they not...

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...a week, corn, wool, cloth, fruits, and the like. Without the city are some theatres, where English actors represent almost every day tragedies and com... ...he excessive applause of those that are present. Not far from one of these theatres, which are all built of wood, lies the royal barge, close to the r... ...red from the weather. There is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears; they are fas- 22... ...m whence she took up these brave men and plants of honour who acted on the theatre of Mars, and on whom she dispersed the rays of her grace; who were ...

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...of the school at any moment as their parents are to get up and go out of a theatre where my plays are being performed. Even among my own schoolmasters... ...people miserable by the heathen horrors of mourning, staying away from the theatre because we can- not afford the stalls and are ashamed to go to the ... ...- isfying it. Story books are forbidden, picture post cards are forbidden, theatres are forbidden, operas are forbidden, cir- cuses are forbidden, swe... ...disguise and conceal the body, and for the abolition of pictures, statues, theatres, and pretty colors. And incredible as it seems, these unhappy luna...

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...oncrief ’s professor of mathematics, who was returning from a visit to the theatre. Mr. Wilson had an impression that theatres were wicked places, to ... ...-stairs from his bedroom, where he had been pre- paring for a visit to the theatre. “Well, my gentleman,” said Skene, mockingly; “you’re a fancy man, ... ... outcome of much reading, observation of men and cities, sight-seeing, and theatre-go- ing, of which his daughter had done her share, and indeed, as s... ...e seems too impatient to choose his words heedfully. Do you ever go to the theatre?” “No,” said Alice, taken aback by this apparent irrelevance. “My f... ...particularly relish, or even than the opera, to which they went often. The theatres pleased her more, though the amusements there were tamer than she ... ...rticular about my manners and appearance, and would never let me go near a theatre. I know very little about either my people or hers; for she boxed m... ...eally detested it once; but by the time she was rich enough to give up the theatre she had worn that feeling out, and had formed a habit of acting whi... ...began to trifle with plans of retirement, of playing in Paris, of taking a theatre in London, and other whims. The chief public glory of her youth had... ...istorical masterpiece of the national bard. All the available seats in the theatre—except some six or seven hundred in the pit and gallery—were said t...

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...ents A FEW OF THESE will be welcome to the ordinary citizen visit- ing the theatre to satisfy his curiosity, or his desire to be in the fashion, by wi... ... the middle of the third scene, and almost force their way out of the dark theatre into the sunlit pine-wood without. And I have seen people who were ... ...ied’s Death was originally intended to be: that is, a heroic piece for the theatre, without the metaphysical or allegorical complications of The Ring.... ...the opera, like the tragedy, is conventionally made like a wall paper. The theatre seems doomed to be in all things the last refuge of the hankering a... ...pays its own way now, and is commercially on the same footing as any other theatre. The only qualification required from the visitor is money. A Londo... ... success which has followed this policy shows that the public wants summer theatres of the highest class. There is no reason why the experiment should... ...like- lihood of a Wagner Festival failing. Suppose, for instance, a Wagner theatre were built at Hampton Court or on Rich- mond Hill, not to say Marga... ... brass under the stage, it is perfectly so. On every point, then, a Wagner theatre and Wagner festi- vals are much more generally practicable than the...

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...n my gable-room; while the persons managing and performing, as well as the theatre itself as far as the proscenium, found a place in the room adjoinin... ...hes. I made gestures, and leaped, as I had seen the dancers do at the fair-theatre. In the midst of this I looked in the glass, and saw by chance the ... ...exclusively for the citizens of Frankfort, a botanic garden, an anatomical theatre, a chemical laboratory, a considerable library, and a house for the... ... All this, however, was little com- pared to the profit I derived from the theatre. My grandfa- ther had given me a free ticket, which I used daily, i... ...es. It was not long before the wish arose in me to see the interior of the theatre, for which many opportunities were offered me. For as I had not alw... ...ven before the door, a handsome, lively boy joined us, who belonged to the theatre, and whom I had seen in many little parts, though only casu- ally. ... ...hed himself to me because there was no boy of his age or his nation at the theatre, or anywhere in the neighborhood. We also went together at other ti... ... The place was neither convenient nor agreeable; for they had squeezed the theatre into a concert-room, so that there were no sepa- rate chambers for ... ...at it was not easy to be got again. What much facilitated my visits to the theatre was, that my free ticket, coming from the hands of the Schultheiss,...

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...e was young! “What crime have I committed, I wonder? I wanted to go to the theatre, and having no money borrowed some from Petia Grouchetsky. Was that... ...ished. Mahin was in when Mitia called, and was just preparing to go to the theatre. His untidy room smelt of scented soap and eau de Cologne. “That’s ... ...p the frame and give me change. But please be quick. We must be off to the theatre, and it is getting late.” “You have plenty of time,” said the shopk... ...d let me have the rest. I will give it back to you.” Mahin went off to the theatre, and Mitia called on Grouchetsky to repay the money he had borrowed... ...a drive; a reception of ministers came next, then dinner, after dinner the theatre. As usual, the Czar fell asleep the moment his head touched the pil... ... decisions in the Duma, and was just about to pass on to the general news, theatres, science, murders and cholera, he heard the luncheon bell ring. Th...

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...y object here is not to argue the historical point, but simply to make our theatre critics ashamed of their habit of treating Britain as an intellectu... ...oreign origin of the ideas which are now making their way into the English theatre through plays written by Socialists. There are living men whose ori... ...ss blasphemy. And they were set right, not by the professed critics of the theatre, but by religious and philosophical pub- licists like Sir Oliver Lo... ..., a life which seems to lie not only outside the sympa- thy of many of our theatre critics, but actually outside their knowledge of society. Indeed no... ... ironi- cally curious than the confrontation Major Barbara effected of the theatre enthusiasts with the religious enthusiasts. On the one hand was the... ...sing the Salvationist as a joyless person, shut out from the heaven of the theatre, self-condemned to a life of hideous gloom; and the Salvationist mo... ...ertility of religion. They can see, when it is pointed out to them, that a theatre, as a place where two or three are gathered together, takes from th... ...s, and snatches a kiss from her lover across his drum, the devotees of the theatre think they ought to appear shocked, and con- clude that the whole p...

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...e to call it so, it’s not life but more 40 Anton Chekhov like a fire in a theatre! Any one who falls down or screams with terror, or rushes about, is... ...tion-master with his face full of hatred, the heaps of snow, a fire in the theatre. I dreamed of the peasants who had stolen twenty sacks of rye out o... ...” After dinner Olga Ivanovna would drive off to see her friends, then to a theatre or to a concert, and she returned home after midnight. So it was ev... ..., but entertained themselves with various arts. An actor from the Dramatic Theatre recited, a singer sang, artists sketched in the albums of which Olg... ...itations, music, and singing, they talked and argued about literature, the theatre, and painting. There were no la- dies, for Olga Ivanovna considered... ...ice fellow”; but they soon forgot about him, and went on talking about the theatre, music, and painting. The young people were happy , and their life ... ... bedroom, then in her husband’ s study; her imagination carried her to the theatre, to the dress-maker, to her distinguished friends. Were they get- t... ...ying the physical peace and cleanliness, and in the evening sitting in the theatre, listening to Mazini. And a yearning for civilization, for the nois... ...ff to her dressmaker or to an actress of her acquain- tance to try and get theatre tickets. If she did not find him at his studio she left a letter in...

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...vels, told improper anecdotes, went to see funny vaudevilles in the French theatre and gaily repeated the jokes, everybody admired and encouraged him.... ...uandering large sums of money, which came from some invisible source; then theatres, ballets, women, then again riding on horseback, waving of swords ... ...name. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. He makes wigs for the actors in the big theatre; it is a good business, so he’s prospering. He bought it from our l... ...oman,” said Mariette with a smile. “And, thirdly, I am going to the French Theatre to-morrow night.” “Ah! And have you seen that—What’s her name?” ask... ...ght vanish altogether,” said Nekhludoff. “No; better begin with the French Theatre, and do pen- ance afterwards.” “Now, then, you are not to hold me u... ...u are not to hold me up for ridicule. The preacher is the preacher and the theatre is the theatre. One need not weep in order to be saved. One must ha... ...she could, and asked him to come and see her, if only for a moment, in the theatre next day, as she had a very important thing to tell him about. “Yes... ...e evening of the same day, but he had promised Mariette to meet her at the theatre, and though he knew that he ought not to keep that promise, he dece... ... for the last time.” He dressed in his evening clothes, and arrived at the theatre during the second act of the eternal Dame aux Camelias, in which a ...