Bennington College History: Drama: Productions, Workshops, Lectures 1932-1939

1932

• Virgil Geddes. "What is Drama?" lecture. Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932 Schedule of Lectures and Readings  | Evening Meetings September - December 1932

• Meeting to Organize the Theatre Guild. (1932-09-27) Evening Meetings September - December 1932 

• Myer Levin. Marionette Studio Theatre lecture. (1932-10-06) Evening Meetings September - December 1932 

• Pygmalion. Ogborn, Jane, director; Shaw, George Bernard, playwright. (1932-10-20) 1932 Evening Meetings, September - December | Bennington College: In the Beginning

• Thomas Dickinson. "The Theatre and the Modern World: The Man as Victim: Zola, Tolstoy and Successors." Lecture.  (1932-11-17) Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932 Schedule of Lectures and Readings 

• Thomas Dickinson. "The Theatre and the Modern World: The Man as Master: Ibsen" lecture. (1932-11-17) Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932 Schedule of Lectures and Readings 

• Craig's Wife. Ogborn, Jane, director; Kelly, George, playwright. (1932-11-19) Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932 Schedule

• Thomas Dickinson. "The Theatre and the Modern World: The Quest of the Superman: Shaw" Lecture. (1932-12-01) Evening Meetings Sept - Dec 1932 Schedule of Lectures and Readings 

1933

• Play reading Dinner at Eight by George S. Kaufman (1933-02-27) 1933 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Drama Workshop Finished (1933-03-20) 1933 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Irving Fineman. "Hollywood" lecture. (1933-03-30) 1933 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Jacob Wilk. "Cinema Scenarios" lecture. (1933-03-31) 1933 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Play reading. Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen. (1933-04-03) 1933 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Stanley McCandless. "Modern Lighting" lecture. (1933-04-06) 1933 Evening Meetings, February - December

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: R. U. R. - Rossum's Universal Robots.  Ogborn, Jane, director; Čapek, Karel, playwright; Selver, Paul, translator; Playfair, Nigel, translator (1933-05-01) program

• Robert Edmond Jones. "The Theatre in Modern Life" lecture (1933-05-04) 1933 Evening Meetings, February - December | announcement on back of R.U.R. program 

• Voulez-Vous Jouer Avec Moâ? - Would You Like to Play with Me? Achard, Marcel, playwright; Schindler, Kurt, composer, actor; Loeb, Berenice, assistant director (1933-05-24) program

• Jane Ogborn. "Modernism in Drama" lecture. (1933-05-25) 1933 Evening Meetings, February - December | Memorandum of meeting on Program for Symposium on Modernism in the Arts 

• The Bennington Theatre Guild presents Let Us Be Gay. (1933-06-19) photograph | 1933 Evening Meetings, February - December 

• Bennington Theatre Guild meeting (1933-09-19) 1933 Evening Meetings, February - December

• The Bennington Theatre Guild presents Uncle Vanya. (1933-10-30) 1933 Evening Meetings, February - December 

• Play reading L'Habit Vert by Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Robert de Flers. (1933-11-22) 1933 Evening Meetings, February - December 

• Drama Workshop Tartuffe. Sullivan, Grace, director; Molière, playwright (1933-11-28) program | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance | 1933 Evening Meetings, February - December 

1934

• Play reading Devil's Disciple by George Bernard Shaw (1934-02-27) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December | 
  Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Play reading Come of Age by Clemence Dane (1934-03-19) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: The Ladies Have Their Way. (1934-04-10) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• French play reading. Les Deux Timides by Eugène Labiche (1934-05-15) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December  | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Red Gate Shadow Puppets (1934-05-21) program | 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: The Adding Machine. Ogborn, Jane, director; Rice, Elmer, playwright; Woodhouse, Jane, stage manager; Watkins, Helen, lighting; Lauterer, Helen Forrest, costume director; Lauterer, Arch, set director (1934-06-04) program includes a short statement on "Expressionism and The Adding Machine'" | 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Play reading Women in Council by Aristophanes (1934-09-14) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Theatre Guild Business Meeting. (1934-09-19) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Play reading Yellow Jack by Sidney Howard. (1934-09-28) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: Major Barbara. Ogborn, Jane, director; Shaw, George Bernard, playwright; Bassett, Lula Holden, production manager; Beebe, Betty, designer; Lauterer, Helen Forrest, costume designer; Lauterer, Arch, set designer (1934-10-29) program | 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Drama Workshop scenes from Shakespeare Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Much Ado About Nothing. (1934-11-06) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Play reading Le Mariage de Monsieur Le Trouhadec by Jules Romains. (1934-12-02) 1934 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

1935

• Theatre of Action. Series of dramatic episodes. (1935-03-05) 1935 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Play reading Tragedy of Nan by John Masefield (1935-03-05) 1935 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: He Who Gets Slapped. (1935-04-08) 1935 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance | Quadrille Vol 11 no 4 1977

• Drama Workshop Confined by Shirley Stanwood. (1935-04-16) 1935 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Ruth Draper. Original monologues. (1935-05-16) 1935 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: Holiday. Ogborn, Jane, director; Rice, Avelia, stage manager; Michie, Jean, designer; Lauterer, Helen Forrest, costume director; Lauterer, Arch, set director; Barry, Philip, playwright (1935-06-10) program | photographs | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• French play reading Je Ne Vous Aime Pas by Marcel Achard. (1935-06-13) 1935 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Harold Clurman. "The Group Theatre: Faith and Work" lecture. (1935-06-17) 1935 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• The New Theatre Players of Boston present presented "The Militarist" by Alan Baxter and ''Waiting for Lefty" by Clifford Odets. (1935-06-22) 1935 Evening Meetings, February - December 

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: Her Master's Voice by Clare Kummer (1935-09-16) 1935 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Bennington Theatre Guild business meeting. (1935-09-19) 1935 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Student work in music and drama (1935-12-03) 1935 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Drama Workshop scenes from Hedda Gabbler, Rocking Chairs, Othello, Serina Blandish. (1935-12-17) 1935 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

1936

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: Marseilles by Marcel Pagnol. (1936-03-03) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Drama Workshop. Scenes from L'Amour Médecin by Molière, Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, Martine by Bernard, and Love for Love by Congreve.  (1936-03-26) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December | Evening Meetings 1932-1936 Percentage of Attendance 

• Drama Workshop. Demonstration of mobs & choruses with scenes from Alcestis, Masses & Man, Murder in the Cathedral, Battle of the Marne, and Lysistrata. (1936-04-21) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Drama Workshop. Scene from Figaro; Where It's Thin, There It Breaks by Turgenev (1936-06-03) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Aline Bernstein. Demonstration of cutting of period costumes. (1936-09-14)  1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Aline Bernstein. "The Profession of a Scenic Designer" lecture. (1936-09-14) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: Small Miracle by Norman Krasna. (1936-09-16) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December | Quadrille Vol 11 no 4 1977

• Bennington Theatre Guild business meeting. (1936-09-18) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Cleon Throckmorton. Problems of the Stage Designing. (1936-09-24) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Cleon Throckmorton. "Problems of the Stage Designer: Past Present and Future" lecture. (1936-09-24) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Music and Drama Workshop. Scenes from: Green Pastures by Marc Connelly, Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman, Measure for Measure by Shakespeare. Original compositions played by Esther Williamson. (1936-09-29) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Lee Simonson. Problems of the Stage Designing. (1936-10-01) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Lee Simonson. "Plan of Action" lecture. (1936-10-01) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Drama Workshop. Dress rehearsal Master Mimin, scene from Of Thee I Sing. (1936-12-14) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

• Drama Workshop. Master Mimin, scene from Of Thee I Sing. (1936-12-15) 1936 Evening Meetings, February - December

1937

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: No. 9 Pine Street by John Colton and Carlton Miles. (1937-03-03) 1937 Evening Meetings, February - April | Quadrille Vol 11 no 4 1977

• Union College presents Winterset by Maxwell Anderson.  (1937-03-24) 1937 Evening Meetings, February - April

• Drama Workshop Production. (1937-04-06) 1937 Evening Meetings, February - April

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: Electra. Fergusson, Francis, director; Fergusson, Francis, translator; Sophocles, playwright; Lauterer, Arch, set design; Hill, Martha, choreographer (1937-06-09) program | Electra Script by Francis Fergusson | Notes for the Danced Epilogue | Electra - Danced Epilogue Drawing Notes | Notes on part 1-4 of the Danced Epilogue of Electra | Dance Counts of Sections for Electra | Dance notes for the character Dike in Electra | Dance notes for the character Acheron in Electra | Dance notes for the character Dionysus in Electra | Martha Hill notebook for danced epilogue of Electra | Danced Epilogue Notes | Notes on Problems of Staging Sophocles' Electra | Quadrille Vol 11 no 4 1977

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: The Contrast. Fergusson, Francis, director; Tyler, Royall, playwright; Elliott, Nancy, costume designer; Hill, Martha, choreography; Wile, Mildred, choreography; Triest, Robert, musical arrangement; Lauterer, Arch, set designer (1937-12-15) program | Quadrille Vol 11 no 4 1977

1938

• Arch Lauterer. "Theatre" lecture. (1938-03) The Art Series text begins on p. 81 of the pdf.

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: Libel! Ebeling, George, director; Wooll, Edward, playwright; Glazebrook, Lucy, set designer; Lauterer, Arch, set designer; Seymour, Henry, stage manager (1938-03-04) program

• Drama Workshop. (1938-03-17) The Art Series

• French Play and Opera Scenes. Fergusson, Francis, director; Myers, Peggy, stage manager (1938-04-12) program 

• The Bennington Theatre Guild Presents: Six Characters in Search of an Author. Fergusson, Francis, director; Pirandello, Luigi, playwright; Lauterer, Arch, set designer; McWilliams, Dorothy, stage manager (1938-06-08)  program

• The Bennington Theatre Studio Presents: Noah. Obey, Andre, playwright; Wilmut, Arthur, translator; Fergusson, Francis, director; Lauterer, Arch, set design; Bottomly, Helen, costumes; Hill, Martha, choreography; Nelson, Jay, music composition and arrangement (Bennington College, 1938-12-14) program

1939

• The Bennington Theatre Studio presents: Kind Lady Thommen, Edward, director; Chodorov, Edward, playwright; Seymour, Henry, set designer; Keith, Nancy Lee, stage manager (1939-02-28) program

• The Bennington Theatre Studio Presents: The Intellectual Ladies with Ballet Interludes: Pantalone's Daughters  Fergusson, Francis, director; Lauterer, Arch, set design; Hill, Martha, choreographer; Luening, Otto, musical director; Fowlie, Wallace, translator; Lauterer, Arch, set design (Bennington College, 1939-06-07) program 

• Eleanor Flexner. "The Theatre Retreats from Reality" lecture. (1939-09-26) General Meetings 1939-1945

• Drama Workshop. (1939-10-24) General Meetings 1939-1945

• The Bennington Theatre Studio Presents: The Bridge Crane, Hart; Lauterer, Arch; set design; Hill, Martha, movement composition and direction; Belitt, Ben, speaking director; Miller, Hope, choral director; Reitell, Elizabeth, costume design(1939-12-13) program | Quadrille Vol 11 no 4 1977