Set design
Set Design
1944 (made)
1944 (made)
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Incomplete line drawn sketch in pen and ink, created by Cecil Beaton, ca.1944.
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
The production of Crisis in Heaven was directed by John Gielgud, with Dorothy Green as Volumnia (mother of Coriolanus), Ernest Thesiger as Voltaire and Adele Dixon as Irene. It was staged at the Lyric Theatre in London in 1944. Beaton designed the sets and the costumes.
Eric Linklater’s (1899-1974) first commercial play, the production was an allegorical comic fantasy set in Elysium but which introduced key figures from across history. The more serious message about conflict which underlied the narrative was not popular however and the production was not a critical success. Beaton’s costumes, which ranged from togas to police uniforms intermingled styles from a range of eras, were described by the critic Beverley Baxter as ‘charming and unusual.’
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
The production of Crisis in Heaven was directed by John Gielgud, with Dorothy Green as Volumnia (mother of Coriolanus), Ernest Thesiger as Voltaire and Adele Dixon as Irene. It was staged at the Lyric Theatre in London in 1944. Beaton designed the sets and the costumes.
Eric Linklater’s (1899-1974) first commercial play, the production was an allegorical comic fantasy set in Elysium but which introduced key figures from across history. The more serious message about conflict which underlied the narrative was not popular however and the production was not a critical success. Beaton’s costumes, which ranged from togas to police uniforms intermingled styles from a range of eras, were described by the critic Beverley Baxter as ‘charming and unusual.’
Object details
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| Title | Set design (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink on cream paper. |
| Brief description | Incomplete line drawn sketch in pen and ink, created by Cecil Beaton, ca.1944 |
| Physical description | Incomplete sketch drawn in pen and ink on a sheet of cream paper. The sketch is formed from a series of curved lines, with the beginnings of a face at the top, it is not titled. |
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| Credit line | Given by the executors of Eileen Hose |
| Literary reference | Crisis in Heaven |
| Summary | Incomplete line drawn sketch in pen and ink, created by Cecil Beaton, ca.1944. Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. The production of Crisis in Heaven was directed by John Gielgud, with Dorothy Green as Volumnia (mother of Coriolanus), Ernest Thesiger as Voltaire and Adele Dixon as Irene. It was staged at the Lyric Theatre in London in 1944. Beaton designed the sets and the costumes. Eric Linklater’s (1899-1974) first commercial play, the production was an allegorical comic fantasy set in Elysium but which introduced key figures from across history. The more serious message about conflict which underlied the narrative was not popular however and the production was not a critical success. Beaton’s costumes, which ranged from togas to police uniforms intermingled styles from a range of eras, were described by the critic Beverley Baxter as ‘charming and unusual.’ |
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| Accession number | S.2136-2014 |
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| Record created | October 23, 2014 |
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