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Long before Charlie Edwards produced Shakespeare for thousands, the plays had already become part of everyday life on the Great Plains.
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Today’s post is the beginning of this story, and the beginning of a cultural history. It starts with Eugene Edwards, Charlie Edwards’s father, his arrival in Kansas, and how he built a local business empire.
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This article, entitled “Fairies in the Short Grass,” sounded a fanfare for Charlie, Gilmor, and Kinsley’s success across the region. The newspapers had chronicled the romantic and idealistic reveries of two men who captured the imagination of countless Kansans.
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This project sits at the intersection of community theatre, rural cultural history, and queer history. Presented as an open-access, public-facing history, it seeks to recover the forgotten stories, overlooked people, and local artistic movements that helped shape American cultural life.
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So what was it, a stage or a forest? Some even believed that maybe, just maybe, the toddler actors were not children at all but, rather, fairies.
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Subscribe to Community Arts Uncovered to learn how Gilmor’s decision to venture out on his own would impact film and theatre in the United States.
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Gilmor Brown’s days absorbing knowledge and culture from Chicago’s literati at glamorous teas helped get him his job with Ben Greet’s company and subsequent employment, but they could not have prepared him for the road.
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Preston K Dillenbeck would enroll some of the world’s first film celebrities, and the up-and-coming teenage director from Kinsley, Kansas, Charlie Edwards. Subscribe to Community Arts Uncovered to learn how Dillenbeck’s school of elocution impacted film and theatre in the…
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Gilmor Brown’s dramatic work became incredibly consequential, but is still rarely acknowledged in theatre history. More so, Gilmor’s educational efforts would go on to directly impact television and film luminaries, like Rue McClanahan, Leonard Nimoy, Dustin Hoffman, Sally Struthers, and…
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100 years ago today, a prolific and remarkable era in history ended in Kinsley, Kansas. On June 1, 1926, one of Kinsley’s most well-known native sons, Charles Rufus Edwards, passed away; he was only forty-five years old. In his short…
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