Poster - 3 Garden Plays
Poster, Theater - "The Tired Faun", "The Heart of Frances" & "The Clever One" Madison Playbarn
1923
Paper
22 in. H
X
14 in. W
Large yellow poster advertising the one act plays, "The Tired Faun," "The Heart of Frances," and "The Clever One," presented by the Madison Play Barn. Advertised to take place Friday, July 27, 1923 and Saturday, July 28, 1923 at 8:30 P.M. D.S.T. Admission cost $1.00, $2.00, or $0.50, with tickets by subscription (telephone Madison 87 given) or purchased at the gate at Boston Post Road opposite the Green. At the top half of the poster on the left is a pole extending up and across two-thirds of the top with a sign reading "The Madison Play Barn." Underneath this sign, a medieval man is seated on a horse.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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