Photographs, Theater - Madison Playbarn Performance of Egypt's Eyes
1920s
1922
1922
Nine black and white photographs from a Madison Playbarn production, likely Egypt's Eyes, which was performed on July 21 and 22, 1922. The script of "Egypt's Eyes: A Three Act Play with an Epilogue" was published in 1924 by Samuel French, New York. 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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