A Mask: Programme for the Revival Performances, 7th and 8th October, 1932, in honour of the 40th year of the Women's College

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Item 10

Content Summary:

Issued in designed coloured wrappers. 4to. Preface by Louisa Macdonald, and further note by E.M. Tildesley.

The programme includes the names of "The Persons of the Mask", also the names of the chorus girls, attendant maidens, and dancers.

The programme includes the text (with slight variations) of the previous performance. In this version, the first 4 lines of the Sibyl's introductory poem have been deleted, also a further 5 lines towards the end. The work after the first Interlude has been shortened by the omission of 2 stanzas, and the "Lucretia" passage is reduced from 22 to 17 lines. Two new characters were introduced: "Madame Melba" and "Caroline Chisholm". The musical accompaniments for the dancing sequences were also changed.

Brennan was ill in Lewisham Hospital while rehearsals were in progress, so he probably had no part in the revision. It is also reported that Brereton was annoyed that changes had been made without his knowledge. Brennan died on 5th October, and Brereton wrote a poem to his memory, "In Memoriam". It was printed on the final page of this programme.

This copy has been bound in full leather cover over the original wrappers, together with Brereton's early pencil drafts of the lines for "Queen Elizabeth". This script, 4pp, 8vo. is heavily scored with revisions and deletions. This version, for Brereton made several for this character, differs from the lines printed in the 1913 book and also from those printed in this programme.

Other notes of interest also included.

Names:

Christopher Brennan

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