Description: This edition of "Saturday Night" is issued upon the occasion of the first presentation of the play in English as the initial offering of Miss Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre in this city. Miss Le Gallienne's is the third Eng-lish-speaking theatre to be inaugurated with a play by Bena-vente, the Theatre Guild of New York and the Everyman Theatre of London having begun with "The Bonds of In-terest." "Saturday Night" was originally performed by the Guer-rero-Mendoza Company during its tenancy of the Teatro Español, Madrid, and took its place immediately as one of the most significant creations of the Spanish stage. Revived by the same company at the Teatro de la Princesa in celebration of the admission of Benavente to the Spanish Academy in 1913, where he succeeded to the seat of the distinguished scholar Menéndez y Pelayo, it achieved exceptional success, having remained almost continuously before the Spanish public ever since. It was included in the repertory of the Compañía Benavente which toured America in 1922-1923, Lola Membrives assuming the rôle of Imperia. Viewed as realistic drama, "Saturday Night" is swift inaction, varied in characterization, strikingly and vividly colored with the panoramic opulence which we associate with the Venetian painters, or the luxurious sensuousness of a Rubens. It belongs, however, properly to the theatre of ideas. "The symbolism of to-day," writes Richard Hovey in the…(from preface). Translated from Spanish.
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Author: Jacinto Benavente
Publisher: Charles Scribner‘s sons
Topic: Theater
Subject: a play
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1926
