Poster - "The Tired Faun" & "The Heart of Frances" - 2
Poster, Theater - "The Tired Faun" & "The Heart of Frances" Madison Playbarn - 2
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," presented by the Madison Play-Barn on Boston Post Road opposite the Green. Performances advertised to take place on Friday, July 27, 1923 and Saturday, July 28, 1923 at 8:30 P.M. D.S.T. Admission cost $1.00 or 50 cents, with tickets by subscription (telephone Madison 87) or at the gate. Within the top half of the poster is a picture of a medieval man with long hair and a billowing outfit. He is also wearing a large hat, long cape, gloves, and boots with long white papers at his feet. In one hand, he is holding a piece of paper at his hip with a bent arm, and in the other, he is holding the two drama masks with his arm extended away from him. He is looking at the masks.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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