
Newly-severed heads of goats lying at its base. In front of the figure is a low altar with five or six Two thick and rudelycarved pillars divide it into three sections.īetween the pillars, in the middle section, can be seen the seatedįigure of a six-armed Goddess, of forbidding aspect, coloured dark In the rock on the right a cave-temple has been roughly hewn. The foreground consists of a small level space between two masses Mile, is a vast barbaric palace, with long stretches of unbroken The mountain wall in the background, at an apparent distance of about a Tone, except in so far as the atmosphere lends them colour. 'British-Australian Cultural Exchange: Live Performanceġ880-1960' on which Veronica Kelly is a co-researcher.Ī region of gaunt and almost treeless mountains, uniformly grey in This edition is an outcome of the Leverhulme Research Project Roebuck (Manchester), Camillo Formigatti (Wolfson College, Cambridge)Īnd Richard G. To Indology scholars Adam Bowles (University of Queensland), Valerie J. Grateful thanks for their assistance and advice on language matters go Particular appreciation for her work in forwarding this research isĭue to the Project's Australian Research Assistant Martina LiptonĪnd to the staff of the Performing Arts Collection in Melbourne.
#Whisperings from the loggia archive#
Williamson Archive in the Performing Arts Collection, Performing Arts Annotations (JCW/TS in endnotes) record details of the stagingĪnd performance used in the 1924 Australian production, recorded in theįour-volume annotated Promptbook H0006787/IRN 65666/1978.001 in the J.Ĭ. The copy text is that of the edition by Alfred Knopf (New York:ġ921). R = right L = left U = upstage D = downstage C = centrestage. 'left' and 'right' are seen from the audience.


This edition follows Archer's stage directions (SDs), where SCENE: A remote region at the back of the Himalayas. Priests, villagers, regular and irregular troops, servants and an
