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Wandering Around in the Dark: An Exhibit of Stage Manager Artifacts

Print: Stage Manager and Prompter

Item

Title
Print: Stage Manager and Prompter
Description
This print is from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The print is from the Harry Beard collection. It shows a stage manager reading from a prompt script and waiting for his cue to pull the curtain. For a position in the theater that didn’t really become its own career until later in the 20th century, this rendering is a great representation of what stage managing is. It’s trying to look at multiple documents, stay in the moment, and also remember where all the technical cues go at any given moment.
Date
1829
Rights
Victoria & Albert Museum.
Subject
theater
Identifier
waitd_1829_VA_print
Site pages
Exhibition