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The Redoutensaal, a great and splendid eighteenth-century ballroom in the Hofburg in Vienna, with an arrangement of curved walls, staircases and platforms newly built into one end. Here, under the light of crystal chandeliers, surrounded by the baroque beauty of Maria Theresa’s palace, audience and players unite in a relationship freed from all the associations of modern stage-setting, a relationship essentially theatrical in the newest and the oldest sense of the word. The stage is here shown cleared of all but a few chairs for the wedding scene in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
CONTINENTAL STAGECRAFT
KENNETH MACGOWAN ROBERT EDMOND JONES
NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO THE PLAYWRIGHTS OF AMERICA
Certain of the chapters and illustrations of Continental Stagecraft have appeared in Vanity Fair, The Century Magazine, Arts and Decoration, The Bookman, The Theatre Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, The Theatre Arts Magazine, The Freeman, and Shadowland.