Royal Dutch Theatre Ik Dien I Serve

£450.00

Original vintage advertising poster for a theatre production of Ik Dien - spel ter verheerlijking van zuster Beatrijs door Herman Teirlinck Koninklijke Nederlandsche Schouwburg / I Serve - play to glorify Sister Beatrice by Herman Teirlinck at the Royal Dutch Theatre featuring artwork showing a lady sitting on the ground in front of a nun holding her hands together praying and a figure of Jesus Christ on a cross in the background, all with their heads bowed down, the title in bold blue and white lettering below with smaller images between the text and the 22-24 March 1924 weekend performance dates and times above. Herman Louis Cesar Teirlinck (1879-1967) was an award winning Belgian writer; his play Ik Dien premiered in Brussels in 1923 to critical success; the play was an adaptation of the 14th century poem Beatrijs / Beatrice about a nun who falls in love with a man and leaves her convent but returns fourteen years later to discover that Mary (the Mother of Jesus) has been acting in her place. Good condition, folds, tears, paper losses.

Country

Netherlands

Year

1923

Style

Advertising Posters

Artist

Lode

Size (cm)

109x71