Stage design for Peer Gynt: Act 1, Scenes 3-4: The Search and The Woman in Green, 1953
Record number
cm000757
Title
Stage design for Peer Gynt: Act 1, Scenes 3-4: The Search and The Woman in Green
Date
1953
Medium
ballpoint pen, watercolour
Support
paper
Dimensions
204 x 258 mm
Inscriptions
Peer Gynt Act 1 Scene 3 / The Search & Scene 4 / The Woman in Green. (ballpoint pen, t.l.-t.r.); 3 [in a circle] (ballpoint pen, t.r.); Scene opens Peer & Ingrid in front of Grey tabs - open on 'Peer / "All but one" Light, dim at end of Cowherd Girl, & for Scene 4 / Close Gold on "My [illegible], Steed - drop net on "Let you & I forget it.' (ballpoint pen, b.l.-b.r.)
Credit line
Given by Mr R. E. Kennedy, Dunedin, 1977.
Accession number
77/49 c
Notes
This is one of a number of set designs for a performance of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, for which McCahon was also stage manager. The play, with music by Edvard Grieg, was performed by the Christchurch Theatre Arts Guild at the Repertory Theatre, 26 May-2 June 1953. (See also the other designs.)