Stage design for Peer Gynt: Act 3, Scenes 2-6: The Witnesses, 1953

Record number
cm000766
Title
Stage design for Peer Gynt: Act 3, Scenes 2-6: The Witnesses
Date
1953
Medium
ballpoint pen, watercolour
Support
paper
Dimensions
204 x 258 mm
Inscriptions
Act 3 Scenes 2 3 4 5 6 / The Witnesses (ballpoint pen, t.l.-t.c.); 13. (ballpoint pen, t.r.); Green Curtain drawn back on entrance of Churchgoers. (ballpoint pen, b.l.-b.r.)
Credit line
Given by Mr R. E. Kennedy, Dunedin, 1977
Accession number
77/49 l
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.)