The Rivalry (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Rivalry

In the center of a slightly raked plank stage, stands a speaker's platform with removable railings. It suggests the elevated, improvised platforms used at outdoor political rallies in the days long before Madison Square Garden and tv.

The edges of the raked stage go off L and R at an angle divergent from each other, so as to carry the eye into the drapes or shadow at the sides, leaving for the central area whatever is real and immediate, and commending the rest to the infinity of history, out of which our action comes and into which it re turns.

The back wall of the stage is susceptible of many treatments, depending on local resources of production. But in any case its needs are little: it must be simple and plain. In the first touring company of the rivalry, the background consisted of only an American flag of 1858, spread flat. In New York, the back wall was more formidable, consisting of a horizontal red drape crossing the length of the stage (to mask pipes and cross-overs, as well as look pretty); and, rising in front of it, a wide, high blue scrim that reached up out of sight. This formed an in verted T; the area not covered by scrim was the plain brick wall of the house, and it was perfectly at home in the setting.

On the speaking platform itself are a small table, flanked by two chairs. At the rear of the platform, in the R corner, is a third chair, which will be occupied later by adele douglas.

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