NEW PLAY FOR 47 WORKSHOP

The 47 Workshop will produce as its second set of performances of the present season an Icelandic drama in four acts called "Eyvind of the Hills," by Johann Sigurjonsson. This play is one of two published in a single volume this fall by the American Scandinavian Foundation of New York. The play was originally written in Danish and the American translation has been made by Henninge K. Schanche. There will be two performances of the production in Agassiz House Theatre on Friday, January 26, and Saturday, January 27.

Professor Baker has chosen to produce this drama for a number of reasons. The American-Scandinavian Foundation is very anxious to have it staged in America and the Workshop will be the first to present on this continent a masterpiece which has been seen in Denmark, Norway, Germany and England. This more than any other of Sigurjonsson's writings has made him famous as one of the younger Icelandic and, indeed, Euopean dramatists. Moreover, Professor Baker sees in this stern and relentless tragedy of the North an unusual opportunity for testing the powers of the Workshop's company of actors. He wishes also to give his students and the members of the Workshop audience an opportunity to see one of the most significant European plays of the last five years.

The play deals with the peculiar outlaw code of this northern island and the main action centres around the love story of one of its victims.

The staging of this play presents one of the most difficult problems which the Workshop production and artistic forces have had to deal with since the inception of the organization. The scenery will be designed by Mr. Huger Elliott and Mr. Henry Hunt Clark, of the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts.