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Rosalind Iden

April 22, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts

Much ado about a dress

Houston Rogers (British, born South Africa, 1901–1970) Rosalind Iden, ca. 1945 Gelatin silver print Donald Wolfit Papers, Harry Ransom Center Donald Wolfit was frequently criticized for gathering around him a company of sub-par actors, which, besides being “pitifully under-rehearsed,” comprised actors whose talents were no match for the majesty, power, and sensitivity of his own acting. The exception was his third wife, Rosalind Iden, an accomplished Shakespearean actress in her own right whose father, B. Iden Payne, was an English stage director known for his Elizabethan stagings of Shakespeare. In this portrait Rosalind Iden is wearing a necklace later fashioned into an embellishment for the Much Ado about Nothing gown. Links from the same necklace were used on another of Wolfit’s costumes, a black velvet hat.

Rosalind Iden’s gown and the character it plays

March 30, 2016, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts

Stage materials shine spotlight on centuries of Shakespeare

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” — As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII) For four centuries, Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies have held up a mirror… read more 

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