Play: Volpone

Theatre / City: New York

Dates:1928

Company:Theatre Guild

Director / Producer: Stefan Zweig's adaptation

Actors: Volpone - Dudley Digges; Alfred Lunt - Mosca; Margalo Gillmore - Colomba

Archives:

Reviews / Production History: Volpone produced', New York Times, 5 Mar. 1929, 30; 'O Rare', New York Times, 5 Mar. 1929, 30; ' Volpone produced', New York Times, 10 Apr. 1928, 32; ' Volpone produced', New York Time (section 9), 22 Apr. 1927, 1; 'Two Guild plays face police watch', New York Times , 25 Apr. 1928, 31; 'Banton reads Guild plays', New York Times, 26 Apr. 1928, 29; 'Strange Interlude cleared by Banton. Volpone also is found not to violate Wales law against objectionable plays', New York Times, 2 May 1928, 16; 'Volpone: reducing all wit to the dung cart', Dramatis 19 (1928), 1365-66; D. Carb, ' Volpone', Vogue, 71 (June 1928), 78; ' Volpone', Theatre Magazin 47 (June 1928), 38-9; 'Wallace sees Volpone', New York Times, 29 Apr. 1928, sec. 1, p. 13; J. Brooks Atkinson, ' Ben Jonson in adaptation', New York Times, 10 Apr. 1928, 32; J. Brooks Atkinson, 'Rare Ben: how Zweig's adaptation of Volpone transforms Jonson 's text - latest intelligence of the poets' war of 1600', New York Times, 22 Apr. 1928, sec. 9, 1-2; F. R. Bellamy, ' Volpone produced', Outlook, 148, 25 Apr. 1928, 665; R. Benchley, ' Volpone', Life 9 2, 12 July 1928, 12; Stark Young, 'The Theatre Guild's Volpone', New Republic, 25 Apr. 1928, 295-6; John Mason Brown, 'Valedictory to a season', Theatre Arts Monthly 1 2 (1928), 387-90

Notes:Adaptation