Scenery for ‘Quality Street’
For J. M. Barrie’s play *Quality Street*, first staged in 1901, Lutyens designed the scenery for the original Vaudeville Theatre production and again for a 1921 revival at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with further alterations to his sets in 1929 by his former assistant S. H. Evans.
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Description
Barrie and Lutyens became lifelong friends after meeting c.1899 at Berrydown, Ashe, and when Quality Street was planned in 1901 Lutyens was asked to design the scenery for a production at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. The scenery was again by Lutyens for the 1921 production at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, but in 1929 alterations to it were made for another presentation at the same theatre by his former assistant, S.H. Evans. (Amery et al., 1981, cat no.223)
Bibliography
Amery, C., Richardson, M. and Stamp, G. (1981) Lutyens, the Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944): Hayward Gallery London, 18 November 1981-31 January 1982. London: Arts Council of Great Britain. ,
