Actors performing at a prisoner of war camp in Münster. Photographic postcard. 1916.

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<p>Many characters, some in drag, are in a crowded scene within the detailed domestic stage set. The play is entitled 'Blanchette', possibly the play by Eugeǹe Brieux (1892), a serious didactic play about the benefits of education for girls of the working classes, and is being performed on a well-improvised set in the theatre at Münster prisoner of war camp, circa 1916. For another photograph of the same play see 2043045i.</p>

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Actors performing at a prisoner of war camp in Münster. Photographic postcard. 1916.

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