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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:
Bohemianism
Futurism (Art)
Modern dance
Modernism (Art)
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
Nightclubs
Programs
Restaurants
Social life and customs
Theater
Vorticism
Subject Period:
20th Century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
London (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