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Backdrops across painting and theatre
Jamsetji's notes.
Backdrops opened new worlds that could change rapidly within the space of a show. Huge paintings- 14 or 18 feet high and 26- 28 feet wide, could make any world come alive.
A lonely street where lovers meet under a smouldering afternoon sun
Factories belch smoke the colour of a deep evening sky, the back of a train in the distance, leaving its own trail of smoke, an Parsee gentleman races on his humpbacked tricycle, the wheels have painted clocks on them. Time and speed are money his painted image seems to say.
Unknown to him, his daughter steals out- there she is behind a pillar, no, she is under the shade of the lone tree in the city, meeting her down-on-luck lover.
The classical indian stage as space
painted backdrops, 19th and early 20th century theatre in India
from 1880 in BOOK 1- 1919