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Name
[Date of Birth)

Favorite Own Design

Favorite Design by Other Designers

Jo M ielziner
(Mar. 19, 1901)

Death of a Salesman

No Choice

Donald Oenslager
(Mar. 7, 1902)

Major Barbara

Lule Song (Robert Edmond Jones), Winterset (Jo M ielziner), Camelot
(Oliver Smith)

Samuel Leve
(Dec.1,1910l

Nutcracker Bal/et

Winterset (Jo M ielziner), Lute Song (Robert Edmond Jones)

Howard Bay
(May3,1912)

Carmen Jones

Harry Horner
JUly24,1912

No Choice

The Dialogues of the Carmelites (San Francisco Opera)

Man of La Mancha (Howard Bay), Fiddler on the Roof (Boris Aronson),
Henry IV-I (Ming Cho Lee - at the Mark Taper Forum)

Dance of Death (Arena Stage)

Company (Boris Aronson), Candide (Eugene
Wagner)

Ralph Alswang
April 12, 1916

King Lear

Lute Song (Robert Edmond Jones)

Lester Polakov
(aug. 24, 1916)

The Bartered Bride (Opera Co.
of Boston)

L 'Ecole des Femmes (Christian Berard), Midsummer Night's Dream
(Peter Brook-Sally Jacobs), Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Robert 0' Hearn)

Oliver Smith
(Feb. 13, 1918)

Indians

Company (Boris Aronson), Falstaff (Franco Zefferelli), Sleeping Beauty
(Nicholas Georgiadas)

Rouben Ter-Arutunian
(July 24, 1920)

Ricercare (American Ballet
Theatre)

Seraphic Dialogue (Isamu Noguchi), Romeo & Juliet (Franco Zefferelli),
Oresteia (Enrico Job)

Ed Wittstein
(April 7,1929)

Ulysses in Nighttown

Lute Song (Robert Edmond Jones), L 'Apres-midi d'un Faun (Jean
Rosenthal), Midsummer Night's Dream (Peter Brook-Sally Jacobs)

David Hays
(June 2, 1930)

Marco Mil/ions (ANTA Washington Square Theatre, 1964)

L 'Ecole des Femmes
Innocents

Peter Wexler
(Oct. 31,1936)

Les Troyens (Metropolitan
Opera)

J. B. (Boris Aronson), Death of a Salesman (Jo M ielziner), Peter Grimes
(Tanya Moiseiwitsch)

Robert O'Hearn
(July 19,1921)

Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Metropolitan Opera)

Tristan and Isolde (Gunther Scheider-Siemssen) ,
Smith), House of Flowers (Oliver Messel)

Eldon Elder
(Mar. 17, 1924)

A Family and A Fortune (Seallie Repertory Theatre, 1974)

A Streetcar Named Desire (Jo Mielziner), Mother Courage
Svoboda), A ViI/age Romeo and Juliet (Corsaro-Chase)

Leo Kerz
(Nov. 1, 1912

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The Author's 1974 Survey.

Robert Edmond Jones to the Peter Brook production
of A Midsummer Night's Dream, designed by Sally
Jacobs. Mr. Wittstein writes:
The greater simplification of design and movement towards
more atmospheric and lor suggestive scenery is the movement
that interests me. Both Peter Brook's Dream and the new Met
Opera production of I Vespri Siciliani designed by Svoboda are
favorite examples. I'm also pleased with the emergence of the
Regional Theatres and have enjoyed very much working in
Cincinnati at the Playhouse in the Park. They have a terrific (in
many ways) new theatre.

The Mummer's Theatre, Oklahoma City, is the
favored choice of David Hays.4 His 1964 design for
Marco Millions at the ANTA Washington Square
Theatre remains his favorite own design.
Of the eight designers added to the new survey,
only Peter Wexler and Robert O'Hearn responded.
Mr. Wexler chose his monumental Les Troyens (see

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THEATRE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

back cover) at the Metropol itan Opera 5 as a favorite
work and indicated another choice; The Rug Concerts
at Avery Fischer Hall, in Lincoln Center. Mr.
Wexler's favorite theatre is the Mark Taper Forum in
the Los Angeles Music Center and his observations
about change focus on "new general ized concern of
playwrights, composers, deirectors, producers, designers, with the relationship of the audience to the
presentation. The choice of theatre form for a specific
property or adapt ion of theatre space to better
enhance production." Robert O'Hearn chose The
Metropolitan Opera House as his favorite theatre and
the Met's 1966 production of Die Frau Ohne Schatten
as his favorite own design.
It is tempting to analyze each of the responses to
the survey, to compare them with the 1964 list and
attempt to draw significant and meaningful concluContinued on Page 37.

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