The Director & The Stage by Edward Braun;

Author:Edward Braun; [Braun;, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408149249
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2019-11-27T06:00:00+00:00

The convention was taken to its extreme in Schluck and Fau, for which the designer was Nikolai Ulyanov. Hauptmann’s ‘ironical masque’ about two vagrants ennobled for a day to amuse the gentry was transferred from its original setting in medieval Silesia to a stylised abstraction of the ‘periwig age’ of Louis XIV. Here Meyerhold describes the treatment of the third scene:

The mood of idleness and whimsy is conveyed by a row of arbours resembling wicker baskets and stretching across the forestage. The back curtain depicts a blue sky with fluffy clouds. The horizon is bounded by crimson roses stretching the entire width of the stage. Crinolines, white periwigs, and the characters’ costumes are blended with the colours of the setting into a single artistic design, a symphony in mother-of-pearl … The rise of the curtain is preceded by a duet in the style of the eighteenth century. It rises to disclose a figure seated in each arbour: in the centre is Sidselill, on either side - the ladies-in-waiting. They are embroidering a single broad ribbon with ivory needles - all in perfect time, whilst in the distance is heard a duet to the accompaniment of harp and harpsichord. Everything conveys the musical rhythm: movements, lines, gestures, dialogue, the colours of the setting and costumes. Everything that needs to be hidden from the audience is concealed behind stylised flats, with no attempt to make the spectator forget that he is in a theatre.3

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