Stage design for Peer Gynt: Act 1, Scene 5: The Troll King, 1953
Record number
cm000758
Title
Stage design for Peer Gynt: Act 1, Scene 5: The Troll King
Date
1953
Medium
ballpoint pen, watercolour
Support
paper
Dimensions
204 x 258 mm
Inscriptions
Peer Gynt. Act 1 Scene 5. / The Troll King (ballpoint pen, t.l.-t.c.); 4 [in a circle] (ballpoint pen, t.r.); Net lifts on Peer "Help Mother I'm dying. / Gold tabs open on you fell as they all fall - Scene ends as in / Scene 3. (ballpoint pen, b.l.-b.r.)
Credit line
Given by Mr R. E. Kennedy, Dunedin, 1977.
Accession number
77/49 d
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.)