Wenn man im Dunkeln küsst : Schwank in 5 Akten, ca. 1880-1895.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Mallachow, Carl, 1851-

Contributor:

Elsner, Oskar, 1845-1909.

Language:

German

Physical Description:

11 items

Contained In:

Learned Collection on German-Language Theater. Folders 290-294.

Place of Publication:

ca. 1880-1895.

Language Note:

In German.

Summary:

The play is co-written by Mallachow and Oskar Elsner, and was first published in 1880. The file contains materials related to rehearsal and performance, including a handwritten transcription of the text in a hard-covered notebook, with annotations, used as a prompt-book; and 10 handwritten role books, for the following parts: Amathusia; Frida; Helene; Angelica Schöneck, Wittwe; Dr. Julius Schöneck; Theodor Hellbach, Architekt; Johann Kloppffleisch, im Dienste des Dr. Schöneck; Betty, Dienerin bei Seeboldt; Louise, Dienerin bei Frau Schöneck; and ein Dienstmann. (One role is missing: Theobald Seeboldt, Rentier, who is the brother of Amathusia and Frida, and the father of Helene.) Pasted to the inside front cover of the notebook containing the text is a playbill advertising a performance of the play at Germania Theater, Philadelphia, on 11 March 1880; the playbill highlights that the work is "new" and is having its first performance in America. Handwritten annotations indicate changes regarding the actresses playing the roles of Frida and Helene. See folder 679 for what is evidently a later, or final version of the same playbill, reflecting those changes. Cast member names noted on the page with the list of characters reflect the cast as displayed in the earlier, or draft version of the 1880 playbill. The notebook with the text and 9 of the role books are labeled with pasted-on labels as the property of Theodor Bloch, who was active in German-language theater in Philadelphia from at least the early 1870s until the mid 1890s, first as an actor and later as a prompter, and who ran a theater lending library. Those 9 role books are all of similar appearance and appear to form a set prepared by Bloch, or at his direction; the printed titles pasted to the covers are apparently clipped from the 1880 playbills. Names of actors and actresses noted on covers of role books reflect up to 3 different casts over time, including the 1880 cast and two later ones (the cast members of the later performances could not be placed). Besides the playbill mentioned above, see two theater newspapers advertising performances of the play in Philadelphia in Oct. 1891(folder 698); the latter cast is not, however, reflected on the role books.

OCLC:

155866181