Provincetown Players

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The original Provincetown Theater

The Provincetown Players was a theater company located in Provincetown, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, and famous for producing the plays of American playwright Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell. It was also associated with the work of Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Edmund Wilson and Djuna Barnes.

In 1916, the company produced O'Neill's Bound East for Cardiff. It disbanded in 1929.

Gallery

Setting up the stage for Bound East for Cardiff, Fall 1916. Photo shows O'Neill to the far left, Cook to the far right.
Scene in All God's Chillun Got Wings in which Paul Robeson kissed Mary Blair's hand and created a national uproar

References

Sarlós, Robert K. (1984). "The Provincetown Players' Genesis or Non-Commercial Theatre on Commercial Streets", Journal of American Culture, Vol. 7, Issue 3 (Fall 1984), pp. 65–70
Murphy, Brenda (2005). The Provincetown Players and the culture of modernity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-83852-5

External links

Minute book of the Provincetown Players, Inc, 1916 Sep 04-1923 Nov 16, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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