![]() ![]() (The play won a Pulitzer Prize for Best Play of 1926).ġ928 Hedgerow presents the world premiere of RANCOUR. Jasper returns to the Provincetown Playhouse and directs ABRAHAM’S BOSOM by Paul Green.ġ927 Hedgerow reopens in Rose Valley with the New York African-American cast playing IN ABRAHAM’S BOSOM, directed by Jasper Deeter. Tennis star Bill Tilden acts in CLARENCE with the Hedgerow Company.ġ926 Philadelphia’s Sesquicentennial and an engagement at the Broad Street Theatre.a summer of record heat, discouragement and the acquiring of a $19,000 debt.the residents dine mainly on turnips.A Sheriffs sale forces the company to disband to earn money as they can in chorus lines, as directors, actors and technicians. Miriam Phillips plays one of the native women, her first role with Hedgerow Company. In November, the Hedgerow Company performs THE EMPEROR JONES with Paul Robeson at the Walnut Street Theatre. Deeter believes that theater is “man’s companion, mirror, critic, teacher and source of amusement.”ġ924 Eva LeGallienne directs and performs in THE MASTER BUILDER.Jasper Deeter directs Ann Harding in The Master Builder and the productions play in repertory. First performance: George Bernard Shaw’s, CANDIDA on April 21. The early core company consists of Leni Stengel, (the wife of a famed Hungarian actor), Ann Harding, Virginia Farmer, Allyn Josyln and Alexander Kirkland, all who were major actors starting out in New York… Dorothy Kite thinks up the name Hedgerow in her Rose Valley kitchen, although later legend will credit future movie star Ann Harding with having thought up the name. and Margaret Scott Oliver help make Hedgerow a reality. Those trained by Rose Schulman and Jasper Deeter include: Marlene Sanders (1st woman newscaster), Jan Silverman (Temple University Theatre Dept.), Virginia Vestoff, Keanu Reeves, Tyne Daley, Alfre Woodward, Olivia Williams, John Allen (founder of the Freedom Theatre), Gordon Phillips, playwright Leslie Lee, George Reinholt, novelist James Carroll, John Harvey (Harvey-in-the-morning) and Penelope Reed.ġ922 Jasper Deeter presents three plays at Guild Hall: TIME by Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, FAME AND THE POET by Lord Dunsay and TRIFLES by Susan Glaspell.ġ923 Jasper Deeter returns from New York, bringing with him seven actors, blue cheesecloth, 16 light bulbs, some wood paneling, nine dollars, and the idea of an independent repertory theatre.Sydney Matchet, Grete Mylecraine, Herbert Walton, Eleanor Abbot, Dorothy Kite, Takashe Otha, Judge L. ![]() ![]() Sean O’Casey proclaimed “Long live the Abbey Theatre! Long live the Moscow Arts Theatre! And long live the Hedgerow Theatre in the state of Pennsylvania!” James Earl Jones’ father was also associated with Hedgerow as were most of the major African-American actors from the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s. Playwright Christopher Fry was also associated with Hedgerow. Katherine Hepburn’s brother Richard wrote BEHOLD YOUR GOD, which premiered at Hedgerow. Many of Lynn Rigg’s plays premiered at Hedgerow (Rigg’s GREEN GROW THE LILACS became the musical OKLAHOMA!). Bella Spewack (who wrote KISS ME KATE) began her career at Hedgerow as Bella Cohen. Jasper taught him about the craft of playwriting. Langston Hughes wrote his play MULATTO at Hedgerow in the summer of 1928. ![]() George Bernard Shaw and Eugene O’Neill gave their plays royalty-free to Hedgerow to produce. ![]()
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