Drawing

Portrait of Paul Scofield (1922-2008) as Sergius in Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. It was drawn in greasepaint by the actress Yvonne Mitchell.

In 1942 Scofield joined Basil Langton's Travelling Repertory Theatre (TRT) and toured munition factories and mining towns for C.E.M.A. (the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts) in Arms and the Man. Yvonne Mitchell played Raina and Basil Langton was Bluntschli. In the first act of the play Raina shows Bluntschli a picture of her fiancé Sergius. Mitchell made a greasepaint portrait of Scofield to use on the tour. In performance, after showing the picture to Bluntschli, Yvonne Mitchell always kissed the portrait. The marks of her lipstick are still visible on the portrait's mouth.