| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow |
| Author: |
WithamBarry, 1939- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
New York, New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2013 |
| Description: |
1 online resource |
| Series: |
Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history |
| Subject: |
Theater - History. - Pennsylvania - |
| Subject: |
ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial - |
| Personal Subject: |
Deeter, Jasper - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137121851 |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record |
| Summary: |
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 repertory and to theater as a 'way of life.' It was an audacious experiment, but over the next thirty years Hedgerow prospered and beclme America's most successful repertory company. While it is popularly known for some of its famous alumnae, including Ann Harding and Richard Basehart, Hedgerow's genuine legacy is a living library of over 200 productions created by Deeter's idealistic, but determined, pursuit of "truth and beauty" in the theatre. |
| ISBN: |
9781137121851electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137121858electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1299717640ebk |
| ISBN: |
9781299717640ebk |
| Content Note: |
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. |