The Roanoke Island Historical Association (RIHA), producers of The Lost Colony, are thrilled to announce Paul Green: The Pathway to The Lost Colony, a lecture by Jeffery Kennedy about Paul Green’s life and works prior to the inaugural 1937 season of The Lost Colony, will take place on Friday, July 25th at 4pm at Dare Arts in Downtown Manteo.
Lecturer Jeffery Kennedy is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance at Arizona State University. His research and scholarship have focused on American theatre, particularly Eugene O’Neill, Susan Glaspel, and Provincetown Players. His book Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players (University of Alabama Press, 2023) has been hailed as a “major event for theatre studies worldwide”. Paul Green’s play In Abraham’s Bosom was produced by the Players in 1926, and it received Green’s only Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1927. Kennedy’s new book, a Staging Experiment: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Playhouse, a companion and continuation of his first book, studies in detail Green’s prize-winning play and the playwright’s life and work, which, of course, includes Green’s outdoor symphonic drama The Lost Colony. Kennedy has done extensive research on Green’s work on The Lost Colony and on the playwright’s work before and after this monumental play, which has become a community institution.
RIHA will be hosting this lecture upstairs in the Courtroom Gallery in Dare Arts, which is located in the historic 1904 Dare County Courthouse, where Paul Green signed his original contract for The Lost Colony in January 1937.
This will be a free lecture open to the public and will last about one hour. For more information, please call 252-473-2127. Dare Arts’ address is 300 Queen Elizabeth Avenue, Manteo, NC 27954.
