In spring 1922 Kenneth Macgowan and the stage designer Robert Edmond Jones spent ten weeks in the theatres of France, Sweden, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria. This record of what they saw, illustrated by Jones, discusses the move beyond realism, black curtains, light as setting, the decline of stage machinery and the productions of Reinhardt and his successors.
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