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1910-1920 PHOTOS, IMAGES & HISTORY
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images on this website are copyright ©2007 University of North
Dakota
Department of Theatre Arts.
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NOTABLE
HAPPENINGS
PRODUCTIONS
AND EVENTS
IMAGE FILES
SOME NOTABLE HAPPENINGS WITHIN OUR
DEPARTMENT
- June 13- The Sock and
Buskin Society
produces Twelfth Night, their first public performance outside near
present-day Merrifield Hall.
1914- May 28 & 29- The Bankside Theatre (located on the
greenspace west of present-day Smith Hall) is dedicated. The site
is claimed as the "first out-of-doors theatre performed at the banks of
a river". Following the dedication the Sock and Buskin Society
performs A Pageant of the
North-West, an original pageant that sets a national style for
pageant writing and performance.
1916- June 12 & 13- Shakespeare, The Playmaker,
the second Sock and Buskin Society pageant is performed.
1917- December 20 & 21- A new
Play-Stage is dedicated in Woodworth Hall and the Sock & Buskin
Society is renamed "The Dakota Playmakers". Following the
dedication the original production The Spirit of Christmas,
written by Franz and Lillian Rickaby, is performed.
1918- June- Frederick H. Koch, founder of
the Sock and Buskin Society (later The Dakota Playmakers) leaves UND
for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he forms The
Carolina Playmakers.
- Franz Rickaby is named the second
director of the Dakota Playmakers.
Pre-1920 (Dates and
year not listed)
His Wife's Place
Kara
Mistletoe
Peg's Little Sister, A Farce
Sacrifice, a Tragedy in One-Act
Pre-1918 (Dates and
year not listed)
The New Day, A Masque of The Future
1918- 1919
Prunella
The Selish, an Indian Pageant-Masque
1917- 1918
First Series of One-Acts (November 1917)
-The Death of Robin Hood
-How She Lied to Her Husband
-The Swan Song
The Spirit of Christmas (December 1917)
Second Series of One-Acts (January 1918)
-Dakota Dick
-How Daddy O'Donnel Had His Way
-Me an' Bill
Third Series of One-Acts- Also performed as part of Founder's Day
(February 1918)
-The Home Fires
-Me an' Bill
-A Vacation Tragedy
Nathan
Hale (April 1918)
Fourth Series of One-Acts
-Barley Beards
-for the Colleen
A Sorority Flurry
1916- 1917
The 1916-1917 season was set aside for original
one-act plays written and produced by UND Students. These
One-Acts were presented as an initial Evening of One-Act Plays held in
November 1916 then in four Series held throughout the remainder of the
academic year. The three most popular one-acts were chosen to
perform a tour of North Dakota. These plays are noted with an *.
An Evening of One-Act Plays (November 1916)
-The Long Exile
-Hyacinth Melvey
-A Pot of Broth
First Series of One-Act Plays (January 1917)
-The Rising of the Moon
-Are You Guilty?
-Becca
-Turribly Sot
-Wanted- A Farmer
Second Series of One-Act Plays (February 1917)
-April Showers
-Beyond the Steppes
-Butterflies
Third Series of One-Act Plays
-Back to the Old Farm*
Fourth Series of One-Act Plays (March 1917)
-Patsy Puts It Over
-Moonlight*
-Morgan of Hinchenbrook*
Rehearsals
for
As You Like It and MacBeth in Woodworth Auditorium
1915- 1916
Much Ado About Nothing (April 1916)
Shakespeare,
The Playmaker (June 1916)
1914- 1915
The
Devil's Disciple (May 1915)
1913- 1914
Little Eyolf (April 1914)
A
Pageant of the North-West (May 1914)
1912- 1913
Three Irish One-Acts
-Riders to the Sea
-Spreading the News
-The Hour Glass
1911-1912
Nathan Hale
1910- 1911
Everyman
(April 1911)
1910
Twelfth
Night (June 1910)
This production marked the first performance of the
newly
founded Sock and Buskin Society.
1914- 1916- A
Pageant of the North-West & other production images
The photo pages linked here feature images from as early as 1911 and
include about 30 images from the 1914 Sock and Buskin performance of A
Pageant of the North-West, an original pageant that turned the
University into a national leader in the pageant theatre
movement. At this time the images are not sorted by
production.
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