Behind the scenes... rehearsals, dressing rooms and theatre technology on postcards. See also: Liebig Card Series: Vor und hinter den Coulissen

Stage and Stage Technology

"Dekorationsmaler"

"Le peintre décorateur de théâtres"

pieces of scenery

scene machinery

scene machinery model

sub-stage scene machinery

scene machinery

scene machinery

scene machinery

sub-stage scene machinery

sub-stage machinery: revolving stage

sub-stage machinery: revolving stage

scene setting

wave machine

fly loft

fly loft above the stage

fly loft above the stage

fly loft above the stage

fly loft above the stage

fly locking rail on stage level

I am earning my living on the stage.

freight elevator in the wings

prompt corner

ballerina waiting side-stage for her entrance

Are you There!! I am remaining behind to night -
These little details require personal attention -
dont wait dinner.

Pendant l'entracte

Gaston de La Touche: À l'Opéra, 1900

Étoiles filantes
- Il t'a engagé pour le prochain ballet? - Non! -
Qu'est-ce qu'il t'a dit? - Il m'a dit qu'il m'engagerait
quand il aurait besoin d'un manche!...

Laura Knight: Ballet

a puppeteer backstage

stagehand opening the curtain

fireman on duty and prompter in the prompt box watching two ballerinas

view of the stage and backstage area with decoration storage

view of the stage and backstage area with decoration storage, seen from the auditorium

stagehands working on the stage

view from the stage

stage

stage with prompt corner

stage with lights

lights

stage with lights

stage wall and spotlight

colour filters for stage spotlights

stage

stage light controls

main switchboard and revolving stage control

stage manager's corner

electrical transformers

light control booth

sound system

sound cable

backstage staircase

auditorium, stage and backstage areas

Deborah MacMillan: Stage Hand at Royal Ballet

Props

"Stage Life" (actors looking for props)

swan prop for "Lohengrin" on an advertisement postcard for ropes
("Kulisse, Prospekte und Vorhang / Kannst Du nicht heben,
Erst Seile von Troitzsch / Verschaffen der Bühne das Leben!")

film property room at Universal City Studios, California

scenery and props storage

applied arts department (during a guided tour)

Orchestra Pit

music stands in the orchestra pit

Casting

Theatrical Terms. Engaging.

"I've a nice big part that will just fit you Miss Needit"

Rehearsals

Ancient Roman choregos and actors
(mosaic from Pompei in the
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli)

Edgar Degas: La Répétition de chant, ca. 1869.

Edgar Degas: Le foyer de la danse à l'Opéra de la rue Le Peletier.
(see Salle de la rue Le Peletier for more works by Degas)

Danse au théâtre (ballet rehearsal room, postcard sent in 1906)

Ulysse Caputo: Avant la Répétition (Salon der Paris 1908)

ballet pupils
Paul Mesplès: Les petites élèves de l'Opéra - "Ça c'est un jeté" (Salon de Paris 1912)

Sorry you're in need

Yu. L. Frolov: A. M. Gorky na repetitsni
v Moskovskom Khudoshestvennom teatre
(Gorky rehearsing at the Moscow Art Theatre)

Ulisse Caputo: Theaterprobe

Olivia Young: Play Reading, 1998
(MED Theatre / Performing Dartmoor)

ballet rehearsal break

ballet rehearsal room (a former painters' hall)

ballet barre in a rehearsal room

dancers playing table tennis in the ballet rehearsal room

Dressing Rooms

Charles Cattermole: [Shakespeare] In the Green Room

dressing room at Drottingholm

Pyotr M. Shmelkov: Sbory v teatr [Call in the theatre]

dressing room at Théâtre des Variétés, Paris

Mounet-Sully in his dressing room, ca. 1901

Sacha Guitry in his dressing room, 1911

Albert Guillaume: Les Admirateurs
Antoni Piotrowski: Zu kulisami. Entre les coulisses.

ballerinas' dressing room
P. E. Mesplès: A l'Opéra, Entrée manquée (Salon de Paris 1906)

J. M. Avy: Entr'Acte (Salon de Paris 1907)

Danseuse dans sa loge
Pardonnez-moi, ma charmante, suis-je indiscret?
Daignez accepter des quelques fleurs
en hommage à votre beauté.

Dans la Loge da la Danseuse
- Nous mangerons des écrevisses,
Des huîtres avec des saucisses,
Et nous boirons, oui, c'est certain,
Du champagne et du chamberlin.

Étoile d'Opéra - La Toilette et la Parure avant le Ballet

Albert Guillaume: Artistes de Music-Hall

E. Tabary: Une étoile dans sa loge

Rudolf Fuchs: Der Brief

Robert Schiff: Leichter als Luft

soloist's dressing room

choir dressing room

Nos artistes dans leur loge: Jane Rollette

Nos artistes dans leur loge: Jean Yonnel

Nos artistes dans leur loge: Signoret

Nos artistes dans leur loge: Tarquini d'Or

Nos artistes dans leur loge: Fontaine

dressing room in a World War I internment camp theatre

Bert Heller: Zirkusmädchen

Je ne demande qu'une toute petite place...

Zsuzsi Roboz: Backstage, 1964
(Backstage at the Windmill)

Masks, Make-Up and Hair

Laboratorio d'un fabricante di maschere al medio-evo

Toyohara Kunichika: Nakamura Fukusuke IV

Carl Spitzweg: Hinter den Kulissen, ca. 1855-1860

Réjane, dans sa loge

Grete Egenolf (in der Garderobe)

K. T. Blažek: Přípravy na první maškarní

Al Teatro della Guerra
Lui: Siete attesa per l'entrata trionfale.
Lei: Un momento! ...Perchè voglio figurar bene!
(Italian political caricature)

Maria Callas at Teatro La Fenice, Venezia, 1950

Lee Theatre, Hong Kong, 1977

Le Prince: Loge de théâtre

Loredana Nemes: Weißclown im Spiegel, Circus Roncalli, 2003

actor in a dressing room wearing blackface, a traditional
part of the Persian popular theatre genre "Siah Bâzi"

applying make-up in the dressing room

applying make-up in the dressing room

theatre make-up box (1828)

shelves with wigs

Costumes

A. Gaussen: Chez le costumier Souplet - Beim Theaterschneider, 1914

H. Gervèse Nos Marins. Avant la Représentation.

V. A. Vasilyev: Kostyomernaya masterskaya (costume workshop), 1956

Travelling Theatres

Ludwig Knaus: Hinter dem Vorhang

Hinter den Coulissen

At the Stage Door

stage door

artists at the Volkstheater stage door, Wien, Austria
(see Volkstheater, Bürgertheater, Staatsoper
and Burgtheater for more stage door
portrait postcards from Wien)

"To find a match you may always go
next to a stage door - dont you know"
(postcard made from leather, c. 1900)

Stage Door (by Dudley Hardy)

Outside the Gaiety Stage Door.
The Masher: "Here she comes!"
(by Phil May)

"I love my wife but oh you kid"
(by Albert Carmichael, 1909)

"Housewives' Choice!"

 
"Mon vieux, allons voir ça dans les coulisses..."
"Il paraît que cette petite a un grand coeur... Je serais curieux de voir ce qui se cache derrière!..."
(foldable pop-up greeting card)

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