Poster - "The Tired Faun" & "The Heart of Frances" - 1
Poster, Theater - "The Tired Faun" & "The Heart of Frances" Madison Playbarn - 1
1923
Paper
22 in. H
X
14 in. W
Large yellow poster advertising the one act plays, "The Tired Faun" and "The Heart of Frances." Performances to take place Friday, July 27, 1923 and Saturday, July 28, 1923 at 8:30 D.S.T at the Madison Play-Barn on Boston Post Road opposite the Green. Admission cost $.50 or $1.00, with tickets by subscription (with the telephone Madison 87 given) or at the gate. At the top half of the poster on the left is a sign extending up and across the top with the colored words "Madison Play-Barn" and a picture of a medieval trumpeter playing his trumpet. Through the center of the poster, horizontally, is a scene of a medieval village. All illustrations and words were done by hand, and pictures are colored.Madison was home to the country's earliest summer theater. In 1918, Constance Grenelle Wilcox and Alice B. Keating founded the Woodland Garden Plays. The first performances were held in the woods behind the Wilcox home on Island Avenue, but later moved into an old barn on the property, called the "Playbarn". The plays were popular fundraisers for charitable causes including post WWI relief, the Madison Historical Society and the preservation of the Lee Academy.
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