A sustainable theatre : Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow / Barry B. Witham.
The Hedgerow Theatre was created by Jasper Deeter in 1923 in a rural Pennsylvania community devoted to the Arts and Crafts movement. Deeter, who had achieved some success in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, abandoned the commercial stage and assembled a company dedicated to true reperto...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Inheritors: growing a theater
- The Emperor Jones: a passion for equality
- Winesburg, Ohio: democracy between the Hedgerows
- An American tragedy: whose social conscience?
- The Cherokee night: Riggs and the power of place
- Too true to be good: consequences of integrity
- Uncle Vanya: a way of acting
- The Hedgerow story: celebrity and disappointment
- Aftermath
- Epilogue.