Ricketts's yellow was the prevailing colour of the first performance of the Literary Stage Society - a group including Thomas Sturge Moore, Laurence Binyon, William Pye, R.C. Trevelyan, Ricketts & Shannon, Gwendolyn Bishop and Florence Farr. The play was by T.S. Moore, Aphrodite Against Artemis, and Ricketts was the designer.
'The scenery and costumes', according to the programme, 'have been carried out after designs by Mr. C.S. Ricketts as closely as circumstances permitted.' Sounds like a warning.
There were weak parts in the play, there was some 'atrocious acting', and the day after, a highly critical review offended the author.
Images of the rare programme, like the Salome programme in last week's blog, were kindly provided by Steven Halliwell.
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| Programme for T.S. Moore's Aphrodite Against Artemis (1906) |
