EVEN STAGE DISCARDED
NEW rSOVIET :• DRAMA
MOSCOW, June 1
'.'Aristocrats," a play- '.'performed, without .atiy regular stage or any' scenery tit the ' Realistic Theatre, is the present' dramatic favorite .with Moscow playgoers., This is the latest radical experiment of-the M. Okhlopkov, who presents lob action on two bare'.connectcd* platforms around three -■ides of.which the -.audience is seated., »o stage properties arc used in the ordinary:* way, but : M. Okhlopkov has resorted-'to the ancient Chinese con-' \ cation of "'Tummies."
When ait.actor wishes-to telephone, a hlue-clkd- aifld masked figure appears beside .him holding a telephone in outstretched kumiss. What the conversation is "over, the "dummy v withdraws. ;tf a 'table is required, two of the silent men in blue kneel on the platform holding a cloth parallel with the floor. A snowstorm i> produced by ''dummies'' who scatter bits of. paper, in the air, much o!' which floats down upon the cadicree. ~.., ~
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18760, 17 July 1935, Page 9
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150EVEN STAGE DISCARDED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18760, 17 July 1935, Page 9
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