Photograph, Theater - "The Tired Faun" Performance
1923
8 1/2 in H
X
11 in. W
Copy of two black and white photographs of the performance of "The Tired Faun" written by Constance Grenelle Wilcox. The play was performed in in the woods behind Oakledge, the Wilcox home on Island Avenue, on July 27 and 28, 1923. The actress who plays the nymph is Helen Jenkins (Jaccacci).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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