{"id":1108,"date":"2009-10-29T13:50:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T17:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2009-10-29T14:31:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T18:31:19","slug":"on-display-ah-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=1108","title":{"rendered":"On Display: Ah, Wilderness!"},"content":{"rendered":"

SC&A has put together an exhibit of materials from various productions of Eugene O’Neill’s only comedy Ah, Wilderness!<\/em> On display in the A wing of Fenwick Library are photographs, playbills, scripts, production and technical notes, and other materials from Arena Stage, the Federal Theatre Project of the 1930s, and Studio Theatre productions.\u00c2\u00a0 The materials are part of the Theatre and Performing Arts Collections<\/a> held in SC&A. The exhibit was inspired by the GMU Players<\/a> and their current production of Ah, Wilderness!<\/em>, directed by Howard Kurtz. The show runs through November 1st.<\/p>\n

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Image from the 1978 Arena Stage Production<\/p><\/div>\n

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Set from 1938 FTP Production in Los Angeles.\u00c2 \u00c2 Act II, Scene I: Back room of a bar in a small hotel<\/p><\/div>\n

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Script from the 1978 Arena Stage Production with notes from director Edward Cornell<\/p><\/div>\n

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SC&A has put together an exhibit of materials from various productions of Eugene O’Neill’s only comedy Ah, Wilderness! On display in the A wing of Fenwick Library are photographs, playbills, scripts, production and technical notes, and other materials from Arena Stage, the Federal Theatre Project of the 1930s, and Studio Theatre productions.\u00c2\u00a0 The materials are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[112,109,111,25,110],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-scrc-interest","tag-ah-wilderness","tag-arena-stage","tag-exhibit","tag-federal-theatre-project","tag-gmu-players"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ep5i-hS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1155,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=1155","url_meta":{"origin":1108,"position":0},"title":"More Images from Ah, Wilderness!","author":"admin","date":"November 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"There are so many great images from Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! in our collections. 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