Behind a Watteau Picture

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Excerpt from Behind a Watteau Picture: A Fantasy in Verse, in One Act The first professional production was by Frank Conroy, at the Greenwich Village Theatre, New York City, in November, 1917. The fantasy was on the Opening bill of the theatre and ran for seven weeks, with scenery by Hewlett and Basing and special music by W. F ranke Harling. Although the New York production was elaborate, the success of the first attempt at St. Louis proved con elusively that the piece can be given by amateurs on a restricted stage. A few suggestions may be helpful. The same setting, gateway and sky, may be used for both scenes. The first scene is set far forward and en closed in a large gilt frame. On the lowering of the lights at the end of Scene I. The picture frame disappears and the gateway with its sky drop is moved to the back of the stage where, with the smaller set scenery and properties, it does for the rest of the play. The play closes on Pierrot's song without the change back to the picture indicated in the text. Scenery and costumes need not be expensive but should approximate in color and shade the pastel twilight tones of a Watteau picture. The Watteau characters should wear the costumes of his pictures, the Pierrot group. Their traditional clothes, Chinese and Negroes should be brilliant and bizarre in the new manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.