Barnes Theatre

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 700+ words | Copyright

Barnes Theatre, London, in Church Road, Barnes, two-tier hall built about 1905 which opened as a small theatre in 1925. After several short runs of new plays came the much-publicized stage version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy himself, with Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Tess. Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, which opened in Jan. 1926 with Jean Forbes-Robertson as Sonia, heralded a remarkable run of Russian plays—Chekhov's Three Sisters with Gielgud as Tusenbach, Andreyev's Katerina, again with Gielgud, Gogol's The Government Inspector with Charles Laughton—all directed by Komisarjevsky. A dramatization of Dostoevsky's The Idiot was followed by John Drinkwater's adaptation of Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, which he also directed. Chekhov returned with The Cherry Orchard and a revival of Three Sisters, and this interesting and extremely fruitful venture ended in Nov. 1926 after a revival of Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln.

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