Mrs Warren's Profession. A Play in 4 acts. Six original set designs (5 in pen and ink and 1 in pencil) by noted American artist Robert Perdziola (born 1961). Undated, but ca. 2010
Each design identified by the artist at lower right in pencil. On light wove paper. Sheet size 270 x 350 mm. Perdziola was the costume and scenic designer for a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession at the Washington Theater in Washington, D.C. in 2010.
"George Bernard Shaw’s play “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” is 117 years old and not yet drained of topical resonance. Longevity is relative: Mrs. Warren’s profession — the profession — is popularly supposed to be the world’s oldest. It was ostensibly the play’s mere discussion (though never by name) of prostitution that got it banned in London for 30 years after Shaw wrote it. A more likely reason is Shaw’s condemnation of an economic and social class system in Victorian England that in his view might make prostitution seem one of the more sensible of the few avenues open to poor young women." Chris Klimek, review in the Washington Examiner, June 24, 2010
Perdziola, an internationally-recognized set and costume designer for theater, opera, and ballet, has worked extensively throughout the United States at such venues as the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Theatre of Chicago, American Ballet Theater, Shakespeare Theater in Washington, Boston Ballet, and Miami Ballet, as well as for various Broadway productions. He has also worked internationally for productions at the Monte Carlo Opera, the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester in Hannover, the Garsington Opera in the United Kingdom, the Finnish National Ballet, the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan, and the Sydney Opera House. The artist has received three Helen Hayes awards and a Helpmann award; he has also been nominated for numerous additional awards.
"George Bernard Shaw’s play “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” is 117 years old and not yet drained of topical resonance. Longevity is relative: Mrs. Warren’s profession — the profession — is popularly supposed to be the world’s oldest. It was ostensibly the play’s mere discussion (though never by name) of prostitution that got it banned in London for 30 years after Shaw wrote it. A more likely reason is Shaw’s condemnation of an economic and social class system in Victorian England that in his view might make prostitution seem one of the more sensible of the few avenues open to poor young women." Chris Klimek, review in the Washington Examiner, June 24, 2010
Perdziola, an internationally-recognized set and costume designer for theater, opera, and ballet, has worked extensively throughout the United States at such venues as the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Theatre of Chicago, American Ballet Theater, Shakespeare Theater in Washington, Boston Ballet, and Miami Ballet, as well as for various Broadway productions. He has also worked internationally for productions at the Monte Carlo Opera, the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester in Hannover, the Garsington Opera in the United Kingdom, the Finnish National Ballet, the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan, and the Sydney Opera House. The artist has received three Helen Hayes awards and a Helpmann award; he has also been nominated for numerous additional awards.