| Description | Drama course in disguise and make-up for the theatre, given by Serge Strenkovsky, Summer, 1937. Consists of many brilliantly coloured watercolour face paintings some of which are derived from Chinese theatre masks.
Serge Strenkovsky was at one time a member of the Moscow Art Theatre. He came to America with Michael Chekhov's company - The Moscow Art Players Company - which performed in New York in February and March of 1935, followed by engagements in Philadelphia and Boston. "The Art of Make-up" by Serge Strenkovsky was published by E P Dutton & Company, New York 1937.
Michael Chekhov invited Strenkovsky to come to Dartington in the summer of 1937 to give a course in make-up to a selected group of members of the Chekhov Theatre Studio and the Jooss-Leeder Ballet School. |