Booklet, Theater - "The Players Season 1923 - 1924"
1923
Paper
9 in. H
X
6 in. W
"The Players Season 1923 - 1924" booklet advertising "Egypt's Eyes", which was performed at the Madison Playbarn. The booklet is handmade and has a small label attached to the newsprint paper cover. Inside the booklet is a blue insert advertising "Two Plays In a Garden" on July 28, 1923. The plays listed in this booklet are written by Constance Grenelle Wilcox (1895 - 1977).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.
A2023.JitneyPlayers.004