No More Posts Available.

No more pages to load.

    • Source: The Sea of Ice (play)

      • The Sea of Ice is a 19th century melodrama play in English adapted from the 1853 French play La Priére des Naufragés (Prayer of the Wrecked) by Adolphe d'Ennery and Ferdinand Dugué.


      French debut


      The French play under the title La Priére des Naufragés was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique and debuted on 20 October 1853.


      = Original Paris cast

      =
      Carlss by Charles de Chilly
      Barabas by Laurent
      Raoul de Lascours by Delafosse
      Georges De Laval by M. Coste
      Horace de Brionne by C. Lemaitre
      Medoc by Machanette
      Un Secretaire d'Ambassade by Depresle
      Un Intendant by Martin
      Premier Matelot by Richer
      Deuxieme Metelot by Lavergne
      Louise de Descours by Marie Laurent
      Ogarita by Idem
      La Comtesse de Theringe by Mesanges
      Diane by Snadre
      Marthe, age 6 by De Brueil


      English adaptations


      In London, it debuted at the Adelphi Theatre under the title The Thirst for Gold, or the Lost Ship and the Wild Flower of Mexico on 4 December 1853, with Benjamin Nottingham Webster as Carlos. It ran to great success until June 1854, and had a running length of three and a half hours. The big draw was a scene where the mutineers of a ship strand the captain and his family on a sea of ice which then breaks up. However, because Webster had simply pirated the play from the French version, once this was exposed a number of copycat translations popped up. One adaptation appeared at the Marylebone Theatre in London in 1854 under the title The Struggle for Gold: or, the Orphan of the Frozen Sea, which added a Danish vessel breaking up the sea ice to serve as a rescue ship. Webster revived the play in 1874 under the title Prayer in the Storm where it ran for 143 performances (28 March - 11 September 1874), and featured Geneviève Ward.


      = Original Adelphi cast

      =
      Captain De Lascours - Charles Selby
      Carlos - Benjamin Nottingham Webster
      Jean Medoc - Paul Bedford
      Pieree Pacome - R. Romer
      First Sailor - C.J. Smith
      Second Sailor - Mrs. Anders
      Barabas - Robert Keeley
      Louise de Lascours - Madame Céleste
      Marie, child - Miss Stroker
      Marquis del Monte - Benjamin Nottingham Webster
      Horace de Brionne - Mr. Garden
      Georges De Laval - Mr. Parselle
      Secretary to the Spanish Embassy - Mr. Hastings
      The Countess Theringe - Mrs. L. Murray
      Mdlle. Diana De Lascours - Miss F. Maskell


      American adaptation


      Laura Keene produced the play in America to success as The Sea of Ice. She brought on the play at her New York theatre on 5 November 1857, where it ran until 21 December, and it saved her company financially. President Abraham Lincoln and his wife attended a Keene performance of the play in Washington, D.C., on 8 February 1864.


      = Original Keene New York cast (5 November 1857)

      =
      Henri De Lascours - Charles Wheatleigh
      Louise De Lascours - Laura Keene
      Carlos - George Jordan
      Medoc - C. Peters
      Pasquin - Burke
      Marie - Mary Bullock
      Horace - G. W. Stoddart
      Don Jose - Carlton Howard
      Mlle. Diane De Theringe - Charlotte Thompson
      Barbaras - Joseph Jefferson
      Jano - F. Evans
      Georges - T. Duncan
      Countess - Mary Wells


      References




      External links


      Full text of play, English
      La Priére des Naufragés (1853)
      La Priére des Naufragés, Google books (1853)
      Illustration from December 1853 Illustrated London News

    Kata Kunci Pencarian: