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Plays Produced in the Provincetown Playhouse by Experimental Theatre, Inc.

Chronological

 

 

SEASON 1923-1924

First Bill, January 3, 1924
The Spook Sonata by August Strindberg
Translated by Edwin Bjorkman
Directed by Robert Edmond Jones and James Light
Scenery by Robert Edmond Jones and Cleon Throckmorton

Second Bill, February 2, 1924
Fashion by Anna Cora Mowatt
(A Revival of the Comedy of 1845)
Acting Version, with songs of the period, arranged by Brian Hooker and Deems Taylor
Directed by Robert Edmond Jones and James Light
Scenery by Reginal Marsh, Celon Throckmorton and Robert Edmond Jones

Third Bill, April 16, 1924
George Dandin (or The Husband Confounded) by Moliere
Directed and translated by Stark Young
Settings by Cleon Throckmorton and Robert Edmond Jones

The Ancient Mariner by Eugene O’Neill
(A Dramatic Arrangement of Coleridge’s Poem)
Directed by Robert Edmond Jones and James Light
Masks by James Light

Fourth Bill, May 5, 1924
The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill
(Revival)
Directed by James Light
Setting by Cleon Throckmorton
(Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones)

Fifth Bill, May 26, 1924
All God’s Chillun’ Got Wings by Eugene O’Neill
Directed by James Light
Settings by Cleon Throckmorton

 

SEASON 1924-1925
(at the Provincetown Playhouse)

First Bill, October 9, 1924
The Crime in the Whistler Room by Edmond Wilson
Directed by Stanley Howlett
Settings by Cleon Throckmorton
Incidental Music composed and arranged by Macklin Morrow

Second Bill, November 3, 1924
S. S. Glencairn by Eugene O’Neill
(Four Episodes of the Sea)
Directed by James Light
Settings by Cleon Throckmorton
Music in the First Episode arranged and directed by Norma Millay

Third Bill, December 15, 1924
The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill
(Revival)

Fourth Bill, December 19, 1924
Patience (Or, Bunthorne’s Bride)
by Written by W. S. Gilbert and Composed by Arthur Sullivan
Directed by Robert Edmond Jones
Settings by Cleon Throckmorton and Mr. Jones, in the manner of E. Burne-Jones
Musical Director and Conductor Macklin Marrow

Fifth Bill, January 26, 1925
Beyond by Walter Hasenclever
Translated by Rita Matthias
Directed by James Light
Settings by Robert Edmond Jones

Sixth Bill, February 10, 1925
The Triumph of the Egg by Sherwood Anderson and Raymond O’Neill
Directed by James Light
Settings by Cleon Throckmorton

Diff’rent by Eugene O’Neill
(Revival)
Directed by Helen Freeman
Settings by Cleon Throckmorton

Seventh Bill, March 4, 1925
Michel Auclair by Charles Vildrac
Directed by Robert Edmond Jones
Settings by Mr. Jones after sketches by M. Vildrac
Settings executed by Cleon Throckmorton

Eighth Bill, April 7, 1925
Ruint by Hatcher Hughes
Directed by James Light
Settings designed and executed by Cleon Throckmorton

 

[Season 1924-1925 at the Greenwich Village Theatre]

First Bill, October 11, 1924
The Saint by Stark Young
Directed by Richard Boleslawsky, Robert Edmond Jones and the Author
Settings by Robert Edmond Jones
Incidental Music composed and arragned by Macklin Marrow

Second Bill, November 11, 1924
Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill
Directed by Robert Edmond Jones
Settings by Mr. Jones

Third Bill, March 31, 1925
Love for Love by William Congreve
Directed and Settings by Robert Edmond Jones

 

SEASON 1925-1926
(at the Provincetown Playhouse)

First Bill, November 6, 1925
Adam Solitaire
(Legend of a Life with More Miracles Than One)
By Em Jo Basshe
Directed by Stanley Howlett
Settings by Cleon Throckmorton

Second Bill
The Man Who Never Died by Charles Webster
Directed by Ralph Stuart
Setting by Cleon Throckmorton

Third Bill, January 20, 1925
The Dream Play by August Strindberg
Translated by Edwin Bjorkman
Directed by James Light
Settings by Cleon Throckmorton

A revival of The Emperor Jones with Charles Gilpin
Opened at the Provincetown Playhouse on February 16, 1926

Fourth Bill, March 10, 1926
East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood
Directed by James Light and Stanley Howlett
Settings by Cleon Throckmorton


Fifth Bill, April 29, 1926
Orpheus by Christopher Gluck
(A Tragic Opera in three acts)
Staged under the supervision of James Light
Conducted by Macklin Marrow
Ballet and Chorus Movement directed by Elsa Findlay
Setting by James Shute