Title

The Fool

Files

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Playwright

Channing Pollock

Performance Dates

June 2 & 4, 1949

Creative Team

Director...................................J. F. Smith

Stage Manager.......................William Bale

Lighting...................................William Hunt

Properties...............................Dean Gross and Richard Willit

Business Manager..................Gienna Keeny

Synopsis

This play made theatrical history. Presented simultaneously by six companies in America and two in England; enthusiastically endorsed by schools and churches, it has been read or witnessed by millions of people, all over the world, and is still on the "required reading" list of colleges and universities. It deals with a young clergyman who resolves to try "What would happen now-a-days to a man who lived like Christ?" Through a series of intensely dramatic incidents, he learns that such a man might lose the world, but would find happiness. The incident of the healing of the little crippled girl, Mary Margaret, through faith, drew tears from many thousands of experienced theater-goers.

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Disciplines

Acting | Dance | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History

Keywords

Otterbein Theatre, Performing Arts, College Theater

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