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Anna Cora Mowatt and Louis Waller
Anna Cora Mowatt and Louis Waller
Part 1: Mowatt’s Woman A Master’s thesis is really a horrid sort of little document. In the Humanities, most institutions put limits on their size. They can only be around a hundred pages long. If you’re an undergraduate reading this, that sounds gigantic. If you’re a doctoral student or beyond, you know that barely gives you enough time to sign your name properly. The assignment is to find…
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Anna Cora Mowatt and What’s in a Name - Part II
Anna Cora Mowatt and What’s in a Name – Part II
Part II: All the World’s a Stage The Victorian opulence of Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie’s name discomforts the modern ear. It’s too obviously old-fashioned. There’s simply too much of it. As is true of many other persons from her era, modern speakers are ill at ease with the unwieldy bulk and echoes of outdated etiquette and social stratification weighing down all those extra syllables. This…
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Anna Cora Mowatt, Charlotte Cushman, and the Vanishing Ion
Anna Cora Mowatt, Charlotte Cushman, and the Vanishing Ion
Part VI: Actress versus Actress [This multi-part series of entries examines Anna Cora Mowatt’s experience playing the lead role in Thomas Noon Talfourd’s “Ion.” If you are unfamiliar with the play, a full cast recording of this classic drama is available at Librivox] I became interested in taking a closer look at Anna Cora Mowatt’s portrayal of the lead role in Thomas Talfourd’s “Ion” while I was…
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Anna Cora Mowatt and E.L. Davenport – Part IV
Anna Cora Mowatt and E.L. Davenport – Part IV
DAVENPORT – THE STORIES – Part III I’m going to wind up my collection of stories about E.L. Davenport this week with a collection of tales that focus on the legacy he left for future generations of performers. Unlike high-strung William Macready, who, although passionately devoted to his craft, tended to intimidate or alienate his co-workers, Davenport transferred some of his own bravery to the…
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Lost Plays of Walter Watts – A Dream of Life, Part II
Lost Plays of Walter Watts – A Dream of Life, Part II
HARRY VS. BILLY – THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Walter Watts did not make Harry Bertram, the protagonist of his melodrama, “A Dream of Life,” an easy character to like. In the opening scene, we first meet Bertram’s long-suffering wife and his sweet children. Harry enters, drunk, belligerent, and abusive. In the second scene – which begins the long dream sequence – Bertram is still in the same state. He…
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Lost Plays of Walter Watts – A Dream of Life, Part I
Lost Plays of Walter Watts – A Dream of Life, Part I
WALTER WATTS’ SPECIAL EFFECTS EXTRAVAGANZA Walter Watts’ 1849 melodrama, “A Dream of Life” was his most ambitious project. With a runtime of an hour and thirty minutes, the drama was the lengthiest of Watts’ creations to be staged at the Marylebone. The show was by far the most complex of his works, with an elaborate dream sequence involving technically challenging gaslight cross-fades between…
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The Lost Plays of Walter Watts - "Which is the King?" Part I
The Lost Plays of Walter Watts – “Which is the King?” Part I
Admittedly, my title for this series of entries is a bit hyperbolic. It’s closer to the truth to say the writings by Walter Watts that I am going to be covering are not actually so much lost as no one has been looking for them. Although Watts’ “An Irish Engagement” (see previous entries here and here and the Librivox reading of the comedy here) is included in several collections of one-act plays…
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Anna Cora Mowatt, Walter Watts and The Belle’s Stratagem
Anna Cora Mowatt, Walter Watts and The Belle’s Stratagem
The cast and crew of the playhouse assemble on the stage of the empty playhouse. As usual, there is a great deal of talking and laughing, but this time, the chatter has a nervous edge to it. There is an air of tension in the theater. Rumors abound. Something is not quite right.
The stage manager calls the group to order and theater’s manager steps forward. He pauses before addressing them,…
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