Photograph, Theater - Woodland Garden Players Performance of "The Enchanted Garden"
1918 – 1923
Black and white photograph of the Woodland Garden Plays production of "The Enchanted Garden: A Magical Comedy" written by Constance Grenelle Wilcox Pignatelli. The play was performed as a fundraiser for the preservation of Lee Academy. The two figures are labeled as Prescott Mabon (Abelard) and Helen Billingslea (Heloise).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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