biography
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Jones, Robert Edmond
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| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1954)
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| biography:
| Set designer, producer, and director, born in Milton, New Hampshire, USA. Beginning in 1915 with his set design for The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, he was in rebellion against the trend towards realism. Eliminating unnecessary detail, he created symbolic and expresionistic settings that were much admired. Critic John Mason Brown described him as a designer who understood ‘the poetry of the undecorated’. In 1926 he designed and directed The Great God Brown by Eugene O'Neill, whose early plays he worked on with the Provincetown Players and at the Greenwich Village Playhouse. He designed settings for productions of Shakespeare (Othello, 1937), as well as many modern plays, and with Kenneth Magowan co-wrote Continental Stagecraft (1922). |
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