Intimate Theatre Society (London, England), Preliminary announcement of the performance season of the Intimate Theatre Society, late 1912?
- Call Number:
- MSS 50
- Creator:
- Intimate Theatre Society (London, England)
- Title(s):
- Preliminary announcement of the performance season of the Intimate Theatre Society
- Date:
- late 1912?
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 6
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- The announcement is headed Wyndham Lewis's Cave of the Calf three-headed figure (Michel no. 34), above the words "Cabaret Theatre Club." The design is flanked by the words "Intimate" and "Theatre," printed vertically. <blockquote> <p> "Preliminary announcement. The Intimate Theatre Society will, under temporarily the same artistic management as the 'Cabaret Theatre Club,' but forming an independent association, open a season of six months on January 15th, 1913, at the 'Cave of the Calf.'</p> <p> Performances will be given on two Sundays of each month, cultivating drama, opera, pantomime, vocal music and such delicate art of the past as adapts itself to the frame of an intimate stage, and more especially all such new art as in the strength of its sincerity allows simplicity. </p> <p> From among the following, twelve works will be produced during the first season: 'Deborah,' by Lascelles Abercrombie; 'Man's life,' by Leonid Andrejeff; 'Dream of an autumn evening,' by Gabriele d'Annunzio; 'Lysistrata,' by Aristophanes; 'The Brothers Karamasof,' by Dostojewski; 'Lady Juliet,' 'Playing with fire,' 'Comrades,' 'Swan white,' 'Death-dance,' by August Strindberg; 'The beggars' opera' (original version); 'Bastien et Bastienne,' by W.A. Mozart; 'Apothecary,' by Hayden; 'Orpheus,' by Monteverde; 'Maestro di Capella,' by Pergolese; 'Timon of Athens,' by Purcell; 'Le devin de village,' by Jean Jacques Rousseau. </p> <p> Special evenings, including vocal and instrumental music, will be devoted to composers. Florent Schmitt's 'Palais hanté' (after E.A. Poe) and "Salomé'; Arnold Schoenberg's 'Pierrot Lunaire' (after Albert Giraud), for the first time in England. </p> <p> Terms £2.2.0 a season. ... </p> <p> For further particulars apply to Eric Crawley, Secretary. 'Cave of the Calf,' 9, Heddon Street, Regent Street, London." </p> </blockquote> There are no apparent records of performances given by the Intimate Theatre Society. See: Morgan, M. M. "Strindberg and the English Theatre." <title>Modern Drama,</title> vol. 7 no. 2, 1964, pp. 161-173.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 x 15 cm
- Genre:
- Application forms, Blank forms, Envelopes, Ephemera, and Prospectuses
- Subject Terms:
- BohemianismFuturism (Art)Modern danceModernism (Art)Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)NightclubsProgramsRestaurantsSocial life and customsTheaterVorticism
- Subject Period:
- 20th Century
- Associated Places:
- Great BritainLondon (England)
- Associated People/Groups:
- Cabaret Theatre Club (London, England)Cave of the Golden Calf (London, England)Intimate Theatre Society (London, England)
- Finding Aid Title:
- Collection of Cabaret Theatre Club and Cave of the Golden Calf printed ephemera
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5731.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2314549
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2314549?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1