Theatre Associates poster for "Exiles" by James Joyce

Collection — Box: Mixed n_OSx-4 (F), Folder: 4

Identifier: NA-0025-01

Online Access

Available digital items: https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/NA002501

Abstract

Poster for the play, "Exiles," by James Joyce, produced by Theatre Associates and performed on May 6, 1933 in the auditorium of The New School at 66 West 12th Street in New York City.

Dates

1933

Creator

Theatre Associates (Sponsor, Organization)

Extent

1 illustration(s) (1 hand painted poster)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Content Description

Poster for the play, "Exiles" by James Joyce, produced by Theatre Associates and performed on May 6, 1933 in the auditorium of The New School at 66 West 12th Street in New York City. The poster is hand-painted in goache or water color, and graphite.

Conditions Governing Access

The poster in this collection is available for research use in digital form. To preserve the original poster, which is fragile, researchers should consult the digitized version, which is publicly accessible online. Researchers wishing to consult the original poster should write to archivist@newschool.edu, indicating the reason for the request.

Conditions Governing Use

To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the New School Archives and Special Collections. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.

Historical note

Theatre Associates was an organization that staged a production of James Joyce’s play, "Exiles," at The New School Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street on May 6, 1933. The details of this production have been established through the donation of a hand-made poster for the production received by The New School Archives in 2021. Derek Fox, art director for U.S. News and World Report from 1940 to 1973, produced the show, according to his obituary. Fox was a member of George Pierce Baker’s 47 Workshop as a graduate student in drama at Yale University, after receiving a bachelor’s degree in journalism from University of Michigan in 1931.

The "Exiles" poster was donated to The New School by the daughter of Elwood Williams III, who was a stagehand in the production. Williams joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1940 and served in the Atlantic and Pacific as a naval officer during World War II. He graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Affairs in 1948 and served in the Bureau of German Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, where he became a decorated expert in German-American relations. He retired in 1974. James Joyce’s only existing play, "Exiles", was written in 1914 and published in 1918. Its first American production was at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City in 1925, and it was again revived Off-Broadway at the Renata Theater in New York in 1957.

Bibliography

Clark, Earl John. “James Joyce's Exiles.” James Joyce Quarterly 6, No. 1 (Fall 1968): 69-78. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25486739.

“Derek Fox, 70, Ex-Art Director of U.S. News & World Report.”. Washington Post, March 15, 1979. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/03/15/derek-fox-70-ex-art-director-of-us-news-38/ffbd632d-2c61-47e7-99ef-e18e13502b93/.

“Elwood Williams III, Retired Official at State.” Washington Post, July 2, 1982. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1982/07/02/elwood-williams-iii-retired-official-at-state/289f5a5a-369b-49d2-8ea0-ba0d33d467d2/.

MacNicholas, John. “The Stage History of Exiles.” James Joyce Quarterly 19, No. 1 (Fall 1981): 9-26. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25476401.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated in 2021 by Anne Williams, whose father, Ellwood Williams, was a stagehand on the production.

Subjects

Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Posters (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century (Subject) (Places) (Temporal) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings