# Deburau > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Deburau > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Deburau.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deburau > Source revision: 1348497295 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Play}} {{Infobox play | name = Deburau | image = File:Elsie Mackay in Deburau - Vanity Fair.jpg | image_size = | caption = [Elsie Mackay](/source/Elsie_Mackay_(actress)) as [Marie Duplessis](/source/Marie_Duplessis) in 1920 Broadway production | writer = [Sacha Guitry](/source/Sacha_Guitry) | genre = | setting = | subject = | premiere = February 9, 1918 [Théâtre du Vaudeville](/source/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Vaudeville), Paris
December 23, 1920 [Belasco Theatre](/source/Belasco_Theatre_(Broadway)), New York
November 11, 1921 [Ambassadors Theatre](/source/Ambassadors_Theatre_(London)), London | place = | orig_lang = French }} '''''Deburau''''' is a 1918 French play by [Sacha Guitry](/source/Sacha_Guitry) that also played on Broadway in a translation by [Harley Granville-Barker](/source/Harley_Granville-Barker) at the [Belasco Theatre](/source/Belasco_Theatre_(Broadway)) in 1920–21[Mantle, Burns](/source/Burns_Mantle). [https://books.google.com/books?id=GrlEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA19 The Best Plays of 1920-21 and the Year Book of the Drama in America], pp. 19-61 (1921) and at the [Ambassadors Theatre](/source/Ambassadors_Theatre_(London)) in London in 1921. ==Background== The play debuted on February 9, 1918, at the [Théâtre du Vaudeville](/source/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Vaudeville). [Burns Mantle](/source/Burns_Mantle) writes in ''The Best Plays of 1920-21'' that Guitry had to withdraw the play due to [World War I](/source/World_War_I) shells starting to drop within blocks of the theatre, but that the play had already been such a success that there was "lively bidding" for the American rights to a translated version that [Harley Granville-Barker](/source/Harley_Granville-Barker) had made for [Charles B. Cochran](/source/Charles_B._Cochran). In America, after an out-of-town warmup in [Washington](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.),(14 December 1920). [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1920-12-14/ed-1/seq-12/ Hunger Unappeased Is Effect of New Comedy], ''Washington Times''(16 December 1920). [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1920-12-16/ed-1/seq-29/ Belasco Purpose To Honor Capital], ''[Evening Star](/source/The_Washington_Star)'' the play debuted at the [Belasco Theatre](/source/Belasco_Theatre_(Broadway)) on December 23, 1920. Mantle writes that it "immediately took its place, not only as one of the fine plays of this particular season, but as one of the most impressively and beautifully staged plays the American stage has ever known." Belasco, however, decided not to take the play on the road due to the cost of doing so, also reporting that the entire production in New York was also going to be a loss. The New York production required actors and staff totaling 126 (plus two children) to be staged.(29 May 1921). [https://www.nytimes.com/1921/05/29/archives/expensive-deburau.html?searchResultPosition=1 Expensive Deburau], ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)'' In London, Granville-Barker's translation debuted at the [Ambassadors Theatre](/source/Ambassadors_Theatre_(London)) on November 3, 1921, and played through November 26 (28 perf.) It was the stage debut for [Ivor Novello](/source/Ivor_Novello). [Robert Loraine](/source/Robert_Loraine) played Deburau.Wearing, J.P. [https://books.google.com/books?id=5vFEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA123 The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel], p. 123 (2d ed. 2014) ==Revivals and adaptations== The 1924 silent film ''[The Lover of Camille](/source/The_Lover_of_Camille)'' is an adaptation of the play.(30 November 1924). [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1924-11-30/ed-1/seq-81/ Rialto - "The Lover of Camille"], ''[Evening Star](/source/The_Washington_Star)'' ([Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.)) The 1951 French [film of the same name](/source/Deburau_(film)) is also based on the play, with [Sacha Guitry](/source/Sacha_Guitry) both directing and reprising his lead role.[https://books.google.com/books?id=JpsPacAoytoC&pg=PA74 Imaginaires urbains], p. 74 (2011) (in French) It has been revived a number of times in France, including in 1950 and 1980.[https://www.lesarchivesduspectacle.net/?IDX_Oeuvre=1211 Deburau],Les Archives Du Spectacle, Retrieved 23 December 2021 ==1920 Broadway cast== * [Lionel Atwill](/source/Lionel_Atwill) as [Jean-Gaspard Deburau](/source/Jean-Gaspard_Deburau) * [Elsie Mackay](/source/Elsie_Mackay_(actress)) as Marie Duplessis * [Bernard A. Reinold](/source/Bernard_A._Reinold) as Monsieur Bertrand * [Hubert Druce](/source/Hubert_Druce) as Robilard * [Joseph Herbert](/source/Joseph_W._Herbert) as Laurent * Rowland Buckstohe as Laplace * Margot Kelly as Justine * Pauline Merriam as Madame Robard * Marie Bryar as Clara * [Isabel Leighton](/source/Isabel_Leighton) as Honorine * Edmund Gurney as Clement * [Sidney Toler](/source/Sidney_Toler) as The "Barker" * Helen Reimer as The Money Taker * Lylia Burnand as The Unknown Lady * [St. Clair Bayfield](/source/St._Clair_Bayfield) as A Journalist * Eden Gray as The Lady with the Lorgnette * Morgan Farley as Charles Deburau * John L. Shine as A Doctor(24 December 1920). [https://www.nytimes.com/1920/12/24/archives/the-play-at-the-belasco-theatre.html The Play], ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)''(24 December 1920). [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-12-24/ed-1/seq-6/ Great Performance By Lionel Atwill In "Deburau"], ''[New York Tribune](/source/New_York_Tribune)'' ==References== {{reflist|2}} ==External links== {{Commons category|Deburau (play)}} * {{IBDB show|3003|Deburau}} * [https://collections.mcny.org/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=24UAYWL82WCTX&SMLS=1&RW=957&RH=721 Photos at Museum of the City of New York] {{Sacha Guitry}} Category:1918 plays Category:Plays by Sacha Guitry --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Deburau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deburau) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deburau?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.