Watching a Play

painter : Glasgow, Edwin drawing, entitled Watching a Play, by the artist Edwin Glasgow A play, probably Shakespearean, is taking place in a community hall in this scene. Actors not in the scene are sitting and standing at the back of the hall. The figures on stage are painted with very little detail, in order to recreate the effect of very bright light. In the audience area, dark paint has been blotted over the colours to suggest the effect of the darkened hall. Paper has been left white to create the glow of the lamps on the pillars. Edwin Glasgow worked in Newcastle and Northumberland from 1909 to 1926.