• Photograph, Theater - Madison Playbarn Performance of "The Blue and Green Mat of Abdul Hassan"
Photograph, Theater - Madison Playbarn Performance of "The Blue and Green Mat of Abdul Hassan"
Photograph, Theater - Madison Playbarn Performance of "The Blue and Green Mat of Abdul Hassan"

Photograph, Theater - Madison Playbarn Performance of "The Blue and Green Mat of Abdul Hassan"

Madison Historical Society
1918 – 1923
Black and white photograph of the Madison Playbarn performance of "The Blue and Green Mat of Abdul Hassan", written by Constance Grenelle Wilcox. 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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Wilcox, Constance Grenelle