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Under the Greenwood Tree
A Celebration of Kentucky Shakespeare
In the summer of 1960, director C. Douglas Ramey took his Carriage House Players theater company down the street from their Old Louisville venue to Central Park, where the actors performed scenes from the Shakespeare classic Much Ado about Nothing. Buoyed by the enthusiastic audience response, Ramey's company returned to the park the next year for the first full season of the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. More than sixty years later, Kentucky Shakespeare is now the oldest free, non-ticketed Shakespeare in the Park festival in the country. To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the festival, in spring 2020 Kentucky Shakespeare cooperated with students in the University of Louisville's Department of History to record twenty entertaining and enlightening oral interviews with longtime members of the company. In Under the Greenwood Tree, author Tracy K'Meyer captures the history of Kentucky Shakespeare in a series of carefully selected and edited transcripts of these interviews. In these pages, past and present cast and crew share their memories of the company's history, performances in the park, and the positive impact of its many outreach programs, from its inception in the 1960s, to its slump in the early 2000s, and on to its recent renaissance. An illuminating record of the collaborative artistry that brings Shakespeare's works to life, Under the Greenwood Tree offers readers a peek behind the curtain at the group's steadfast stewardship of the most important literature in the English language.
About the Author
Tracy K'Meyer is professor of US history at the University of Louisville, where she has served as codirector of the Oral History Center. She is the author of "To Live Peaceably Together": The American Friends Service Committee's Campaign for Open Housing and Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South: Louisville, Kentucky 1945–1980.
Reviews
"So much Shakespeare happens outside major theatres in the biggest cities. Tracy K'Meyer's Under the Greenwood Tree provides a lively look into the history of the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival and the work it's done over more than seventy years to bring Shakespeare to audiences wherever they are and regardless of their background and preparation. The story she tells is not just about Shakespeare, but about the Festival's continuing role in supporting cultural democracy."—Joyce MacDonald, author of Shakespearean Adaptation, Race, and Memory in the New World
"Theatre companies are notoriously bad at telling their own stories, and the inspiring, implausible story of Kentucky Shakespeare – the longest-running non-ticketed Shakespeare Festival in the US – definitely deserves telling. Happily, historian Tracy K'Meyer has taken the key first step, collecting first person accounts that cover the company's long history – from early productions (Othello played on a boxing ring!) to the company's ascension in recent years as an artistic/educational powerhouse that draws huge summer crowds to the heart of the city - and now operates year-round, as well."—Marty Rosen, theatre critic for The Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Eccentric Observer
"Theatre companies are notoriously bad at telling their own stories, and the inspiring, implausible story of Kentucky Shakespeare – the longest-running non-ticketed Shakespeare Festival in the US – definitely deserves telling. Happily, historian Tracy K'Meyer has taken the key first step, collecting first person accounts that cover the company's long history – from early productions (Othello played on a boxing ring!) to the company's ascension in recent years as an artistic/educational powerhouse that draws huge summer crowds to the heart of the city - and now operates year-round, as well."—Marty Rosen, theatre critic for The Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Eccentric Observer
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Other Titles by Tracy E. K'Meyer
Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South
Tracy E. K'Meyer, Ph.D.
Nov 2010
- University Press of Kentucky
$30.00 USD
- Paperback / softback
$30.00 USD
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$30.00 USD
- Electronic book text
Other Titles from Kentucky Remembered
Gatewood
Matthew Strandmark
Nov 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
$60.00 USD
- Electronic book text
$30.00 USD
- Electronic book text
$60.00 USD
- Hardback
The Coal Miner Who Became Governor
Paul E. Patton
Nov 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
$70.00 USD
- Electronic book text
$35.00 USD
- Electronic book text
$70.00 USD
- Hardback
This is Home Now
Arwen Donahue, photographs by Rebecca Gayle Howell, foreword by Joan Ringelheim, preface by Douglas A. Boyd, James C. Klotter, Terry Birdwhistell, Terry L. Birdwhistell
Jan 2022
- University Press of Kentucky
$50.00 USD
- Hardback
$26.00 USD
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$50.00 USD
- Electronic book text
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Madness at the Movies
James Charney, MD
Jan 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
$39.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
$39.95 USD
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Canadian Performance Documents and Debates
edited by Anthony J. Vickery, Glen F. Nichols, Allana C. Lindgren, foreword by Jerry Wasserman
Aug 2022
- University of Alberta Press
$79.99 USD
- Paperback / softback
Citizenship on Catfish Row
Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Jul 2022
- University of South Carolina Press
$89.99 USD
- Hardback
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$29.99 USD
- Paperback / softback