Production history
The play received its première under the title ''Hannele'' at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Königliches Schauspielhaus in Berlin, opening on 14 December 1893. The production was directed by Max Grube, with music by Max Marschalk. The cast included Adalbert Matkowsky. The play was directed by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski with his Society of Art and Literature in Moscow, in a production that opened on . At the request of Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, who considered Hauptmann to be a playwright superior to Henrik Ibsen, the play was to be included in the repertoire of the first season of their world-famous Moscow Art Theatre. At the play's first read-though, it reduced the entire company, with the exception of Vsevolod Meyerhold (who had been cast as the Death (personification), Angel of Death), to tears. On , however, the production was banned, following protests made by the Russian Orthodox Church, despite having been passed by the Censorship, censor. Productions in the United States include one in New York City, New York at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, which opened on 1 May 1894, a second at the Lyceum Theatre (Broadway), Lyceum Theatre, which opened on 11 April 1910 and which featured Mrs. Fiske, Minnie Fiske, and a third at the Cort Theatre, which opened on 15 February 1924, and included both Eva LeGallienne and Basil Rathbone in the cast. British productions include one in Liverpool in 1913 in which both Gertrude Lawrence and Noël Coward were involved and another in London in 1924.Adaptations
In 1922 in film, 1922 the Danish film director Urban Gad directed a cinematic adaptation of the play with German titles. Thea von Harbou adapted the play for another German cinematic version, also titled ''Hanneles Himmelfahrt (film), Hanneles Himmelfahrt'', which she directed in 1934.. The play also formed the basis for Paul Graener and George Graener's opera ''Hanneles Himmelfahrt (opera), Hanneles Himmelfahrt'', which was first performed on 17 February 1927. An opera titled ''Hannele'' was also written by Italian composer Antonio Guarnieri and recorded by RAI in 1971.References
Sources
* Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre.'' Cambridge: Cambridge UP. . * Bédé, Jean-Albert, and William B. Edgerton, eds. 1980. ''Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature.'' 2nd rev. ed. New York: Columbia UP. . * Benedetti, Jean. 1999. ''Stanislavski: His Life and Art''. Revised edition. Original edition published in 1988. London: Methuen. . * Brockett, Oscar G. and Franklin J. Hildy. 2003. ''History of the Theatre''. Ninth edition, International edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. . * Day, Barry, ed. 2007. ''The Letters of Noel Coward.'' London: Methuen. . * Hartnoll, Phyllis, ed. 1983. ''The Oxford Companion to the Theatre''. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford UP. . * Morley, Sheridan. 1981. ''Gertrude Lawrence.'' New York: McGraw-Hill. . * Worrall, Nick. 1996. ''The Moscow Art Theatre.'' Theatre Production Studies ser. London and NY: Routledge. .External links
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