Paul Green: The Path to The Lost Colony

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.

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