1 Acontemporary drawing of Titus Andronicus, by Henry Peacham. 2 John Philip Kemble as Coriolanus. Painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence. 5 Edmund Kean as Richard III. 6 Romeo and Juliet. Artist’s impression of the final scene, designed by William Telbin, from Henry Irving’s 1882 production at the Lyceum Theatre, London. Romeo (Irving), Juliet (Ellen Terry) and Paris lie dead in the Capulets’ crypt as Friar Lawrence descends the stairs. Note the suggestion of depth through the use of two staircases. 7 Much Ado About Nothing. The church scene (4.1), designed by William Telbin, from Henry Irving’s 1882 production at the Lyceum Theatre, London. Mezzotint after the painting by Johnston Forbes-Robertson. Note the ornate altar, organ loft, massive columns and wrought iron gates. Compare the same scene in Edward Gordon Craig’s 1903 production. 8 Henry V. ‘Historical Interlude’ of Henry’s return to London after the victory at Agincourt, from Charles Kean’s production at the Princess’s Theatre, London, 1859. The stage manager’s promptbook lists more than 140 characters and supernumeraries required for this elaborate set piece, including a chorus of angels and a company of biblical prophets. to Fit-up stage, representing the Fortune Theatre, first used by William Poel in November 1893 for his production of Measure f Measure at the Royalty Theatre, London. ir Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich, February 1926: interior view, with gallery and front rows of chairs facing the stage set for a production of John Dryden’s Marriage a la Mode. 13 A production of The Tempest at the Southwark Globe, 2000. Jasper Britton as Caliban. 14 David Garrick as Macbeth, in the dagger scene. 16 Laurence Olivier as Macbeth, with the witches, from Glen Byam Shaw’s 1955 Stratford-upon-Avon production. 17 Ian McKellen as Macbeth, with the witches, from the 1976 production at The other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon. 18 Henry Irving as Shylock, 1879. 945- IV, 1 ry f Hen ion o ducti ic pro Vic p in the Old ff in Ista Fa as dson ichar Ric Iph 19 Ra 20 Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth in the sleepwalking scene: ‘her eyes were open, but their sense was shut’. Her not holding the candle during this scene was considered revolutionary. 21 Charlotte Cushman as Romeo, with her sister Susan as Juliet, 1858. 22 Ellen Terry as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Lyceum Theatre, 1882. 26 Peter Palitzsch’s Der Krieg der Rosen, Stuttgart, 1967. 27 Heiner Miller’s Hamlet, 1989/90. trial in which he was sued for damages by a London alderman whose wife had been Kean’s mistress; he played successfully in New York, Philadelphia and other cities, though his performances were at times interrupted by catcalls of ‘Huzzah for the seducer’ and flurries of oranges hurled on stage. His ill- starred reappearance in Boston resulted in the first theatre riot in America on the night scheduled for his opening, the result of his unwillingness to perform for a small audience five years earlier; Kean fled the city without acting. noted, however, ‘He covered the stage with a firm and graceful stride’, and his leading ladies ‘often insisted that no man ever bowed and kissed a hand more gently’."* While critics at times complained of a lack of subtlety in his playing and he was never fully acceptable to the more ‘refined’ elements of American society, he was acknowledged as an original, an actor of compelling power and magnetism whose portrayals provoked wild enthusiasm. Forrest acted successfully in England in 1836 and again in 1845, when he 32 John Barrymore as Hamlet in the 1922 New York production. 33 Maurice Evans as Richard II in the 1937 production. 34 Paul Robeson as Othello in the 1943 production. 37 Macbeth, directed by Yukio Ninagawa, Nissei Theatre, Japan, 1980. The witches are played in Kabuki style. 41 Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Jiang Weiguo. The merry war between Bicui (Beatrice) and Bai Lidi (Benedick) is presented in Duichang style, a duet in the form of question and answer or statement and comment. 45 The original production of A’are Akogun, a version of Macbeth by Wale Ogunyemi, performed in 1968 at the Arts Theatre, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The first photo shows Ogunyemi himself as Oba (Duncan).
