• P. Dementiev, mise-en-scène drawing (detail) for Puss in Boots, based on the play by Ludwig Tieck (December 1, 1921). Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, f. 963, op. 1, ed. khr. 1274: 9.

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  • Curtain
    Heads of the audience
    Aud[ience] auditorium

Mise-en-scène drawing for Puss in Boots (Dementiev)

From The Director's Prism: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde by Dassia N. Posner

  • Drawing (detail) of P. Dementiev’s proposed solution to how to stage the audience-within-an-audience of Puss in Boots: with the fictional audience sitting along the lip of the stage, their heads ringing the forestage like footlights.

    See book: p. 161

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  • Performing Arts
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  • December 1, 1921
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