Box 2

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Program for the February 4-9, 1985 preview run of Dostoyevsky's play The Dispossessed, directed by Yuri Lyubimov. Inscribed by Lyubimov on recto.

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Autograph note card with embossed address reading "22 Barkston Gardens. | Earls Court. S.W." Note reads "With pleasure | Yours truly | Gordon Craig. | Birmingham. | Oct. 1891."

Accompanied by a modern photograph of Craig.

Craig co-produced with Moscow Art Theatre's production of Hamlet in 1911-1912 with Konstantin Stanislavsky.

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Small handbill or invitation card, in French, for the inaugural Moscow Theatre Festival (Festival Théatral de Moscou), held 22-28 December 1933.

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Two programs for the performances of Balieff's Chauve-Souris (Bat Theatre of Moscow) at the Shubert Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. The first is dated in pencil October 19, 1923; the second dates from the company's second appearance in Boston, in April 1924.

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Small printed broadside for the Grande Ourse Bal, held in Paris on May 8, 1925 and organized by the Union des Artistes Russes.

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Autograph letter to Mr. Block by Edward Gordon Craig, thanking Block for sending a Lyceum program of the last performance of Henry VIII. He asks Block to send him a catalog occasionally.

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Photograph of the actress Alisa Koonen in the role of Phaedra; the play debuted at the Kamerny Theatre (Moscow) on February 8, 1922. Small photographer's stamp in Russian on verso.

Koonen was married to the play's director, Alexander Tairov.

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Autograph note by Erwin Piscator, reading in full "At the beginning of a new period of our[?] life - and (I have hope) a new world - I wish my two friends Anna and [?] - a new stage of action and activity. | New York - May 10. 1945 | V-Day! | Erwin Piscator."

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Sixteen-page program for the Union Square Theatre, New York, for the "Week Commencing Monday Evening, December 12, 1892." The featured performance is Zola's "Therese" with Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew.

Scope and Contents Fourteen large postcards produced in 2004 by the A. A. Bahrushin State Theatre Museum | Vs. Meyerhold Apartment-museum in Moscow, Russia. Captions in Russian and English. English versions of the captions follow:- "Vsevolod Meyerhold and Olga Munt | Fragment of the group photo (1892)"- "Vsevolod Meyerhold. 1898 | Photo R. Brodovsky"- "Vsevolod Meyerhold as Ivan the Terrible | 'Death of Ioann the Terrible' by A. K. Tolstoy | Director K. S. Stanislavsky |...