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completed in August 1915 and first produced in <a href="/wiki/1915_in_literature#New_drama" title="1915 in literature">that same year</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Art_Theatre" title="Moscow Art Theatre">Moscow Art Theatre</a> on October 27, 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Immensely popular with Russian audiences, the work received numerous stagings throughout the Russian speaking world in the two decades after its premiere, and then later enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the 1970s and 1980s in Russian theaters.<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The work is still part of the dramatic repertory in Russian speaking countries.<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While well-liked by the public, critical reaction to the work was initially negative in Russia. It was later reevaluated as a masterwork of Russian drama, and is regarded as Andreyev's finest achievement among his 25 plays.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The play is representative of Andreyev's "<a href="/wiki/Panpsychism" title="Panpsychism">panpsyche</a> theatre" in which the plot focuses on developing the internal, psychological and intellectual aspects of characters over external action.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Set inside a <a href="/wiki/Circus" title="Circus">circus</a> within a French city, the play's main character is a mysterious 39-year-old stranger (referred to as "He"; Russian <span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">тот</span></span>, <i>tot</i>, "that one") whose name is never revealed to the audience.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "He" is fleeing a failed marriage and joins the circus as a clown. "He" falls in love with the horseback rider Consuelo, the daughter of Count Mancini. The Count pushes Consuelo into marrying Baron Renyard for financial gain. "He" poisons Consuelo, Baron Renyard commits suicide in despair, and then "He" drinks the poison himself at the end.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the international stage, the play became Andreyev's most successful in the United States, being popular with both audiences and critics when it was staged on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_(theatre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Broadway (theatre)">Broadway</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Garrick_Theatre_(New_York_City)" title="Garrick Theatre (New York City)">Garrick Theatre</a> in 1922 in a production mounted by the <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Guild" title="Theatre Guild">Theatre Guild</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-OB_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That production used an English language translation of the original Russian by the psychoanalyst <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Zilboorg" title="Gregory Zilboorg">Gregory Zilboorg</a> which was first published in 1921.<sup id="cite_ref-EBOOK_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EBOOK-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The play has been staged in multiple languages internationally, but is most often performed in English outside of Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 1944 English translation made for <a href="/wiki/The_Old_Vic" title="The Old Vic">The Old Vic</a> by Judith Guthrie reduced the structure of the play to two acts instead of four.<sup id="cite_ref-Vic_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vic-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This version was used for the 1946 Broadway revival, the 1947 <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> production, and several other stagings in the United States and United Kingdom during the 20th century. </p><p>The success of the stage play in the US led to the development of <a href="/wiki/Victor_Sj%C3%B6str%C3%B6m" title="Victor Sjöström">Victor Sjöström</a>'s critically successful <a href="/wiki/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_(film)" title="He Who Gets Slapped (film)">1924 silent film</a> of the same name which was notably the first film ever made by <a href="/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" title="Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer">Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer</a>. Besides this film, the play has been adapted many times, including an earlier Russian film in 1916, a Swedish film in 1926, a novel in 1925, an opera in 1956, a 1961 television film, and a musical in 1971. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Roles">Roles</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=He_Who_Gets_Slapped&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Roles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-6.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-6.jpg/300px-He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-6.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="371" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-6.jpg/450px-He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-6.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-6.jpg/600px-He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-6.jpg 2x" data-file-width="615" data-file-height="760" /></a><figcaption>Photograph of Margalo Gillmore (Consuelo) and Louis Calvert (Baron Regnard) in the 1922 Broadway production</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable"> <caption><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1152813436">.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="sr-only">Roles, Original Broadway cast</span> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Role </th> <th scope="col">Original Broadway cast,<sup id="cite_ref-OB_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /> January 9, 1922 – May 20, 1922<br /> </th></tr> <tr> <td>"He", mysterious stranger (sometimes modified to "Funny") </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bennett_(actor)" title="Richard Bennett (actor)">Richard Bennett</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Gentleman", mysterious stranger and acquaintance of "He" </td> <td>John Blair </td></tr> <tr> <td>Consuelo, a horseback rider </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Margalo_Gilmore" class="mw-redirect" title="Margalo Gilmore">Margalo Gilmore</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Baron Renyard, wealthy patron </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Louis_Calvert" title="Louis Calvert">Louis Calvert</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Count Mancini, Consuelo's father </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Frank_Reicher" title="Frank Reicher">Frank Reicher</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Papa Briquet, owner of the circus </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Cossart" title="Ernest Cossart">Ernest Cossart</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Zinida, a lion tamer </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Helen_Westley" title="Helen Westley">Helen Westley</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Alfred Bezano, jockey and Consuelo's lover </td> <td>John Rutherford </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jackson, a clown </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Travers" title="Henry Travers">Henry Travers</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Tilly, musical clown </td> <td>Philip Leigh </td></tr> <tr> <td>Polly, musical clown </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Stehli" title="Edgar Stehli">Edgar Stehli</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Angelica, circus performer </td> <td>Helen Sheridan </td></tr> <tr> <td>Francois, circus performer </td> <td>Sears Taylor </td></tr> <tr> <td>Wardrobe Lady </td> <td>Katherine Wilson </td></tr> <tr> <td>Usher </td> <td>Charles Cheltenham </td></tr> <tr> <td>Conductor </td> <td>William Crowell </td></tr> <tr> <td>Pierre, circus performer </td> <td>Philip Loeb </td></tr> <tr> <td>A Sword Dancer </td> <td>Julia Cobb </td></tr> <tr> <td>Ballet Master </td> <td>Francis C. Sadtler </td></tr> <tr> <td>Ballet dancers </td> <td>Helen Stokes<br />Barbara Kitson<br />Frances Ryan </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=He_Who_Gets_Slapped&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:He_Who_Gets_Slapped_(1922)_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281922%29_1.jpg/300px-He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281922%29_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="256" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281922%29_1.jpg/450px-He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281922%29_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281922%29_1.jpg/600px-He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281922%29_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="721" data-file-height="615" /></a><figcaption>Richard Bennett as "He" (left) & Louis Calvert as Baron Regnart (right) in the 1922 Broadway production</figcaption></figure> <p>The action takes place within a circus in a large city in France.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the opening scene a mysterious man, "He", approaches the circus performers and requests to join the troupe as a clown. Uncertain, the circus members recognize that the man is well educated and cultured by his speech and manner, but believe he may be an alcoholic. To win their approval, "He" suggests that his part in the circus act could be receiving slaps from the other clowns, and that his circus name could be “He Who Gets Slapped”.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Andreyev's script keeps the audience guessing over the identity of "He", and information is divulged piecemeal over the course of the play's four acts.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This construct keeps the psychological aspects of the play at the center, as the audience is constantly trying to figure out what is motivating the central character.<sup id="cite_ref-EBOOK_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EBOOK-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the first act, Papa Briquet, the owner of the circus, asks to see "He"'s identification in order to register his employment with the government. "He" discloses his name into Papa Briquet's ear, without revealing it to the audience.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The reaction of the circus owner reveals that "He" is famous and respected, but the audience gains no further knowledge of the character other than he is 39 years old.<sup id="cite_ref-EBOOK_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EBOOK-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the second act, "He" is an established clown in Briquet's circus and his act has been a huge success, bringing financial prosperity to the circus troupe. However, the other performers warn "He" against talking too much about controversial political and religious topics during his act.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "He" falls in love with the horseback rider Consuelo, but her father, Count Mancini, is intent on marrying his daughter to Baron Regnard for his money. At the end of this act a second mysterious man, known only as the "Gentleman", arrives. It is revealed that the "Gentleman", a former close friend of "He", is the cause of "He"'s marital problems, as the "Gentleman" had an affair with "He"'s wife and they now have a son.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Gentleman in hopes of repairing their relationship has been searching all over Europe for "He" for months, as his friend disappeared mysteriously after leaving an angry letter.<sup id="cite_ref-EBOOK_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EBOOK-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the third act, it is revealed that the "Gentleman" is now married to "He"'s former wife, and that he wrote a highly successful book about his affair with her that has made the "Gentleman" rich and famous. The Gentleman appears regularly in the press with his wife and son. "He" vows never to return to his former life, and the Gentleman leaves.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "He" focuses his attention on Consuelo, and makes an unsuccessful attempt to sabotage her engagement to Baron Regnard.<sup id="cite_ref-EBOOK_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EBOOK-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the fourth act, "He" poisons Consuelo in order to prevent her from marrying Baron Regnard and she dies. The Baron immediately commits suicide (offstage). Finally, "He" takes the poison as well, and dies.<sup id="cite_ref-EBOOK_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EBOOK-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Composition_and_performance_history_in_Russian">Composition and performance history in Russian</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=He_Who_Gets_Slapped&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Composition and performance history in Russian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-3.jpg/250px-He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-3.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-3.jpg/375px-He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-3.jpg/500px-He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="760" data-file-height="612" /></a><figcaption>Photograph of Margalo Gillmore, Frank Reicher and Richard Bennett in the 1922 Broadway production of <i>He Who Gets Slapped</i></figcaption></figure> <p>In a letter to S. S. Goloushev of September 10, 1915. Leonid Andreev writes: "Since August 17–18, among the pains and other things, I sat down to work," and names among other works completed during this time "He Who Gets Slaps" – "a large 4-act play for the Drama Theater. It will be great to play and watch!"<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The initial staging of the play at the Moscow Drama Theater was very important to Andreev: in the fall of 1915 he specially came to Moscow to be present at the rehearsals, and even earlier he wrote a number of letters to some actors of this theater, in which he gave detailed explanations of the play.<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He pays particular attention in his comments to the character of Consuelo. In a letter to the actress E.A.Polevitskaya September 28, 1915, he stressed that the disclosure of his "one of the most important tasks of the artist and director: to show the goddess under the tinsel jockey and acrobat."<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The work premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre on October 27, 1915 to tepid critical reviews, but tremendous popularity with audiences who applauded continuously through fourteen curtain calls.<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The production marked the professional debut of lauded Russian actress <a href="/wiki/Faina_Ranevskaya" title="Faina Ranevskaya">Faina Ranevskaya</a> who portrayed one of the smaller roles.<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Alexandrinsky_Theatre" title="Alexandrinsky Theatre">Alexandrinsky Theatre</a> staged the work the following month (premiere November 27, 1915) in a staging by Nikolai Vasilyevich Petrov.<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Numerous productions of the work were presented in Russia and Estonia over the next two decades, including performances in Kiev, Syzran, Voronezh, and Tallinn among others.<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The play received a resurgence of popularity in the Russian speaking world in the 1970s and 1980s, with productions mounted at the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Theatre,_Tallinn" title="Russian Theatre, Tallinn">Russian Theatre, Tallinn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Lensoviet_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre">Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Army_Theatre" title="Russian Army Theatre">Russian Army Theatre</a> among others.<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2002, visiting Finnish director Raija-Sinikka Rantala staged the play at the Moscow Art Theater. The title role was played by Viktor Gvozditsky, to whose 50th anniversary the premiere of the play was timed.<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2020, Moscow director Natalia Lyudskova staged the play at the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pushkin_State_Drama_Theatre_Kursk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pushkin State Drama Theatre Kursk (page does not exist)">Pushkin State Drama Theatre Kursk</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_performances_in_other_languages">International performances in other languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=He_Who_Gets_Slapped&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: International performances in other languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Geclown.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Geclown.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="423" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="423" /></a><figcaption>Swedish actor <a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6sta_Ekman_(senior)" title="Gösta Ekman (senior)">Gösta Ekman</a> as “He” in 1926</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1919 the play was given its first staging in France at the <a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_H%C3%A9bertot" title="Théâtre Hébertot">Théâtre des Arts</a> in Paris. The production was directed by <a href="/wiki/Georges_Pito%C3%ABff" title="Georges Pitoëff">Georges Pitoëff</a> who also wrote the French language translation of the play. His wife, Ludmilla Pitoëff, portrayed Consuelo in the production.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That same year the play had its United States debut in the Yiddish language with <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Ben-Ami" title="Jacob Ben-Ami">Jacob Ben-Ami</a> as "He" at The New Yiddish Theater (in Yiddish, Dos Naye Yidisher) in New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ben-Ami would go on to perform the role in Yiddish and English in multiple production in the United States and Canada into the 1930s, including a 1929 production at the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Play_House" title="Cleveland Play House">Cleveland Play House</a> which became entangled in a highly publicized labor dispute.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 1921 an American magazine, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dial" title="The Dial">The Dial</a></i>, published an English-language translation of the play by the psychoanalyst <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Zilboorg" title="Gregory Zilboorg">Gregory Zilboorg</a> after his translation drew the attention of the magazine's editor, the poet <a href="/wiki/Marianne_Moore" title="Marianne Moore">Marianne Moore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-trans_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trans-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Well received, that translation has been republished 17 times since that initial publication.<sup id="cite_ref-trans_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trans-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That translation was used for what was billed as the United States premiere (but really the English language premiere) of the play on January 9, 1922 at <a href="/wiki/Broadway_(theatre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Broadway (theatre)">Broadway</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Garrick_Theatre_(New_York_City)" title="Garrick Theatre (New York City)">Garrick Theatre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It remained there until February 13, 1922, when it transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Fulton_Theatre" title="Fulton Theatre">Fulton Theatre</a> for performances through May 20, 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-OB_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The production then moved back to the Garrick Theatre, where it continued to play through September 30, 1922, closing after a total of 308 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Starring <a href="/wiki/Richard_Bennett_(actor)" title="Richard Bennett (actor)">Richard Bennett</a>, the production earned glowing reviews in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the Broadway production, producer <a href="/wiki/Sam_H._Harris" title="Sam H. Harris">Sam H. Harris</a> mounted a national tour of the production which was directed by Joseph Gaites and was headlined once again by Richard Bennett.<sup id="cite_ref-tour_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tour-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among the tour's stops were the <a href="/wiki/Hollis_Street_Theatre" title="Hollis Street Theatre">Hollis Street Theatre</a> in Boston in November 1922;<sup id="cite_ref-tour_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tour-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a 10 week run at the <a href="/wiki/Fine_Arts_Building_(Chicago)" title="Fine Arts Building (Chicago)">Playhouse Theatre (now Fine Arts Building)</a> in Chicago in December 1922 through February 1923;<sup id="cite_ref-tour_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tour-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Mayfair_Theatre,_Baltimore" title="Mayfair Theatre, Baltimore">Auditorium Theatre</a> in Baltimore in October 1923.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several more stagings of the play in English followed, including a production at the <a href="/wiki/Le_Petit_Theatre_du_Vieux_Carre" title="Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre">Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre</a> in New Orleans (1924).<sup id="cite_ref-trans_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trans-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The work was regularly staged in American regional theaters during the 1920s and 1930s when Andreev was at his height of popularity in the United States; during which time his works were banned in the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-trans_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trans-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1926 the Austrian premiere was given at the Modernes Theater Wien in <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a> in 1926.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That same year the play was mounted for the first time in the United Kingdom at the <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Repertory_Theatre" title="Birmingham Repertory Theatre">Birmingham Repertory Theatre</a> with Stanley Lathbury as "He", <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Richardson" title="Ralph Richardson">Ralph Richardson</a> as "Gentleman", Muriel Hewitt as Consuella, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Howland" title="Alan Howland">Alan Howland</a> as Polly, and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Chapman_(actor)" title="Edward Chapman (actor)">Edward Chapman</a> as Tilly using an English language translation by Gertrude Schurhoff and <a href="/wiki/Barry_Jackson_(director)" title="Barry Jackson (director)">Sir Barry V. Jackson</a>; the latter of whom directed the production.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1927 the play was mounted in London for the first time at the <a href="/wiki/Everyman_Cinema,_Hampstead" title="Everyman Cinema, Hampstead">Everyman Theatre</a> in Hampstead with <a href="/wiki/Milton_Rosmer" title="Milton Rosmer">Milton Rosmer</a> as “He”, <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Lloyd_(actor)" title="Frederick Lloyd (actor)">Frederick Lloyd</a> as “Gentleman”, Gabrielle Casartelli as Consuelo, Dorie Sawyer as Zinida, Godfrey Baxter as Alfred Bezano, and <a href="/wiki/Brember_Wills" title="Brember Wills">Brember Wills</a> as Mancini. In 1929 it was staged at the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Playhouse" title="Oxford Playhouse">Oxford Playhouse</a> for the first time.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1952 that theater mounted the work again in a celebrated revival directed by Oliver Marlow Wilkinson with <a href="/wiki/David_March_(actor)" title="David March (actor)">David March</a> as “He”, Susan Dowdall as Consuelo, John McKelvey as Briquet, <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Manning" title="Hugh Manning">Hugh Manning</a> as Count Mancini, Mary Savidge as Zinida, and <a href="/wiki/Ronnie_Barker" title="Ronnie Barker">Ronnie Barker</a> as Polly.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-guardobit_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardobit-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1944 the play was staged at the <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Playhouse" title="Liverpool Playhouse">Liverpool Playhouse</a> by <a href="/wiki/The_Old_Vic" title="The Old Vic">The Old Vic</a> whose players had relocated to Liverpool from London during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> due to <a href="/wiki/The_Blitz" title="The Blitz">The Blitz</a>. Directed and produced by <a href="/wiki/Tyrone_Guthrie" title="Tyrone Guthrie">Tyrone Guthrie</a>, it used a new English language translation divided into two Acts instead of four by Guthrie’s wife, Judith Guthrie, and was performed under the title “Uneasy Laughter”. The character of “He”, played by Old Vic’s director <a href="/wiki/Peter_Glenville" title="Peter Glenville">Peter Glenville</a>, was renamed Funny in this version. Other cast member included <a href="/wiki/Audrey_Fildes" title="Audrey Fildes">Audrey Fildes</a> as Consuelo, <a href="/wiki/Eileen_Herlie" title="Eileen Herlie">Eileen Herlie</a> as Zinida, <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Marl%C3%A9" title="Arnold Marlé">Arnold Marlé</a> as Briquet, <a href="/wiki/Noel_Willman" title="Noel Willman">Noel Willman</a> as Count Mancini, <a href="/wiki/Scott_Forbes" title="Scott Forbes">Scott Forbes</a> as Bezano, <a href="/wiki/Percy_Heming" title="Percy Heming">Percy Heming</a> as Jackson, and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Edwards_(actor)" title="Henry Edwards (actor)">Henry Edwards</a> as Baron Reynard.<sup id="cite_ref-Vic_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vic-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Both Guthries were utilized again for a Broadway revival staged by The Theatre Guild in 1946. The production starred <a href="/wiki/John_Abbott_(actor)" title="John Abbott (actor)">John Abbott</a> as Count Mancini, <a href="/wiki/John_Wengraf" title="John Wengraf">John Wengraf</a> as Baron Reynard, <a href="/wiki/Susan_Douglas_Rube%C5%A1" title="Susan Douglas Rubeš">Susan Douglas Rubeš</a> as Consuelo, <a href="/wiki/Stella_Adler" title="Stella Adler">Stella Adler</a> as Zinaida, Wolfe Barzell as Papa Briquet, Reinhold Schünzel as Baron Regnard, Russell Collins as Jim Jackson, and John M. O'Connor as Polly.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Douglas won a <a href="/wiki/Donaldson_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Donaldson Award">Donaldson Award</a> for her portrayal.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1947 the play was staged for the first time in London’s <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Duchess_Theatre" title="Duchess Theatre">Duchess Theatre</a> under the artistic direction of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Helpmann" title="Robert Helpmann">Robert Helpmann</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Benthall" title="Michael Benthall">Michael Benthall</a>; once again using Guthrie’s two act version of the play. Helpmann portrayed Funny (“He”), with Audrey Fildes as Consuelo, Margaret Diamond as Zinida, Arnold Marlé as Briquet, <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Milton_(actor)" title="Ernest Milton (actor)">Ernest Milton</a> as Count Mancini, <a href="/wiki/Leonard_White_(producer)" title="Leonard White (producer)">Leonard White</a> as Bezano, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Stanley_Ratcliffe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stanley Ratcliffe (page does not exist)">Stanley Ratcliffe</a> as Jackson, Alfie Bass as Tilly, Peter Varley as Polly, and Basil Coleman as “Gentleman”.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1951 the play was mounted using Guthrie’s adaptation at the <a href="/wiki/Watergate_Theatre,_London" title="Watergate Theatre, London">Watergate Theatre, London</a> with <a href="/wiki/Brian_Cobby" title="Brian Cobby">Brian Cobby</a> as Bezano.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1952 literary critic <a href="/wiki/Peter_Bayley_(literary_critic)" title="Peter Bayley (literary critic)">Peter Bayley</a> directed a production of the play for <a href="/wiki/University_College_Players" title="University College Players">University College Players</a> starring a young <a href="/wiki/Maggie_Smith" title="Maggie Smith">Maggie Smith</a> as Consuelo.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1958 a second national tour starring <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Drake" title="Alfred Drake">Alfred Drake</a> as “He” toured the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1964 the <a href="/wiki/Hampstead_Theatre" title="Hampstead Theatre">Hampstead Theatre</a> staged the work with <a href="/wiki/Vladek_Sheybal" title="Vladek Sheybal">Vladek Sheybal</a> as “He”, Tristram Jellinek as Mancini, and <a href="/wiki/Jo_Maxwell-Muller" title="Jo Maxwell-Muller">Jo Maxwell-Muller</a> as Consuelo.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1985 the play was staged at the <a href="/wiki/Riverside_Studios" title="Riverside Studios">Riverside Studios</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1995 the <a href="/wiki/Hudson_Theater" class="mw-redirect" title="Hudson Theater">Hudson Theater</a> won an <a href="/wiki/Ovation_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Ovation Award">Ovation Award</a> for their production of the play which was directed by <a href="/wiki/Dan_Shor" title="Dan Shor">Dan Shor</a> and starred <a href="/wiki/Bud_Cort" title="Bud Cort">Bud Cort</a> as "He".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A critically acclaimed production directed by and starring <a href="/wiki/Yuri_Belov_(actor)" title="Yuri Belov (actor)">Yuri Belov</a> with a new English translation by Belov was staged at the <a href="/wiki/Ivy_Substation" title="Ivy Substation">Ivy Substation</a> in <a href="/wiki/Culver_City,_California" title="Culver City, California">Culver City, California</a> in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-trans_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trans-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_reception">Critical reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=He_Who_Gets_Slapped&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Critical reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-4.jpg/220px-He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-4.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-4.jpg/330px-He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-4.jpg/440px-He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="760" data-file-height="616" /></a><figcaption>Margalo Gillmore (centre, seated) as Consuelo, Helen Westley (Zinida), Philip Leigh and Edgar Stehli (Tilly and Polly, musical clowns) in the 1922 Broadway production</figcaption></figure> <p>The first two productions, both Moscow and Petrograd, were, according to theater chronicles and recollections of contemporaries, a great success with the audience.<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The actor llarion Nikolaevich Pevtsov in the leading role of "He" in both productions was praised universally by critics and audiences.<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, criticism was mostly negative about the play at the time of its premiere with the playwright being accused of "hodgepodge" and "derivation".<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Russian critic <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Kugel" title="Alexander Kugel">Alexander Kugel</a>, who usually championed Andreev's plays, gave a cold review of the play, reproaching the author's lack of clear thought, which is replaced here by many contradictory "ideas", and the abuse of external stage effects.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Critic S. Goloushev was more complimentary of the play and speaks of "He" as a role that requires a tragic actor of <a href="/wiki/Feodor_Chaliapin" title="Feodor Chaliapin">Chaliapin</a>'s scale for its performance. In his article he points to the essential conflict underlying this drama-"a masquerade where everyone's mask is fused to his skin... "He" is again a Man with a capital letter, and again next to him is a gentleman, a man of little "h." Again a clash of personality and crowd, of greatness of spirit and vulgarity. The personality is defeated. Everything he had lived with has been taken from him."<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Russian poet <a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Sologub" title="Fyodor Sologub">Fyodor Sologub</a> was one of the work's champions. In his analysis the main character "He" is "revealing of the clear outlines of an ancient myth under the guise of reality we are experiencing. Thoth, is an envoy of another, higher world, the Creator of ideas, who descended to the circus arena, again took on his humiliated appearance, a rabbit's eyesight, voclauned, to again accept the sourdough. Consuella is "the daughter of the people, the soul of simple-minded humanity, the charming Psyche... And the eternal story of the innocent soul, seduced by the eternal Defiler, is repeated."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Current assessment of <i>He Who Gets Slapped</i> among Russian writers is much more positive, with scholars on Andreev contending that initial criticism misinterpreted the nature of conventionality in Andreev's writing.<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Contemporary playwright Victoria Nikiforova notes: "Leonid Andreev's play should appeal to lovers of indie melodramas and <a href="/wiki/Emmerich_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n" title="Emmerich Kálmán">Emmerich Kálmán</a>'s operettas. <i>He Who Gets Slapped</i> anticipated the plot of <i><a href="/wiki/Die_Zirkusprinzessin" title="Die Zirkusprinzessin">Die Zirkusprinzessin</a></i> ten years earlier and the heated atmosphere of <i><a href="/wiki/Seeta_Aur_Geeta" title="Seeta Aur Geeta">Seeta Aur Geeta</a></i> by fifty."<sup id="cite_ref-Russian_2-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Critical assessment in the US was positive from its initial presentation in English in 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Russian studies academic Frederick H. White writes, "Andreev’s play about betrayal and revenge, seemingly, struck a chord with modern industrial America, during the unscrupulous Gilded Age of robber barons and a period of great social change due to a rapidly increasing immigrant population, a period in American history when the circus crisscrossed the country providing a vivid cultural window into this era’s complex and volatile web of historical changes."<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=He_Who_Gets_Slapped&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281924%29.webm/220px-seek%3D1994-He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281924%29.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="165" data-durationhint="4301" data-mwtitle="He_Who_Gets_Slapped_(1924).webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:He_Who_Gets_Slapped_(1924).webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281924%29.webm/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281924%29.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281924%29.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9"" data-width="640" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281924%29.webm/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281924%29.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="192" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281924%29.webm/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281924%29.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="320" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281924%29.webm/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281924%29.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="480" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281924%29.webm/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_%281924%29.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="480" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption><i>He Who Gets Slapped</i> (full film)</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>1915, Russian film <i>He Who Gets Slapped</i> is released.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1924, American film <i><a href="/wiki/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_(film)" title="He Who Gets Slapped (film)">He Who Gets Slapped</a></i> is released by <a href="/wiki/MGM" class="mw-redirect" title="MGM">MGM</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1925, George A. Carlin's novel <i>He Who Gets Slapped</i> is published.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1926, Swedish film <i>He Who Gets Slapped</i> is released.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1956, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Ward_(composer)" title="Robert Ward (composer)">Robert Ward</a> and Bernard Stambler's opera <i><a href="/wiki/He_Who_Gets_Slapped_(opera)" title="He Who Gets Slapped (opera)">He Who Gets Slapped</a></i> premieres at <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Center" title="Lincoln Center">Lincoln Center</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jester_1-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jester-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1961, a television film for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Play_of_the_Week" title="The Play of the Week">The Play of the Week</a></i> starring <a href="/wiki/Richard_Basehart" title="Richard Basehart">Richard Basehart</a> and <a href="/wiki/Julie_Harris" title="Julie Harris">Julie Harris</a><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1971, an <a href="/wiki/Off-Broadway" title="Off-Broadway">Off-Broadway</a> musical adaptation entitled <i>Nevertheless, They Laugh</i> by composer Richard Lescsak and writer LaRue Watts is mounted at the <a href="/wiki/Lamb%27s_Theatre" title="Lamb's Theatre">Lamb's Theatre</a> in New York city with stars <a href="/wiki/David_Holliday" title="David Holliday">David Holliday</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bernadette_Peters" title="Bernadette Peters">Bernadette Peters</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div 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White (2016). "A Slap in the Face of American Taste". In Alexander Burry and Frederick H. White (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.3366/j.ctt1bh2kpq.12.pdf"><i>A Slap in the Face of American Taste: Transporting He Who Gets Slapped to American Audiences</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 140–164. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781474411424" title="Special:BookSources/9781474411424"><bdi>9781474411424</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1bh2kpq.12">10.3366/j.ctt1bh2kpq.12</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=A+Slap+in+the+Face+of+American+Taste&rft.btitle=A+Slap+in+the+Face+of+American+Taste%3A+Transporting+He+Who+Gets+Slapped+to+American+Audiences&rft.pages=140-164&rft.pub=Edinburgh+University+Press&rft.date=2016&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F10.3366%2Fj.ctt1bh2kpq.12%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.isbn=9781474411424&rft.au=Frederick+H.+White&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2Fpdf%2F10.3366%2Fj.ctt1bh2kpq.12.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHe+Who+Gets+Slapped" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">|work=</code> ignored (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#periodical_ignored" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Russian-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-13"><sup><i><b>n</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-14"><sup><i><b>o</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-15"><sup><i><b>p</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-16"><sup><i><b>q</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Russian_2-17"><sup><i><b>r</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFАндреев_Л.Н.1995" class="citation book cs1">Андреев Л.Н. 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