Photograph, Theater - Pie for Peacocks Performance
1918 – 1930
Black and white photograph of the "Pie for Peacocks" performance, put on by the Madison Playbarn on August 26, 1922.Madison was home to the country's earliest summer theater. First held outdoors in 1918 and later in a barn, the plays were popular fundraisers for charitable causes including post WW I relief, the Madison Historical Society and the preservation of the Lee Academy. The Woodland Garden Players were founded in 1918 by Constance Grenelle Wilcox and Alice B. Keating. Performances were first held in the woods behind the Wilcox home on Island Avenue, but later moved into an old barn on the property, called the "Playbarn".7 1/4" x 11 1/4"
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