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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
A comedy about shenanigans in a florist’s shop, it was written and first performed in in 1915 by the Harvard Dramatic Club and by the Phoenix Theater, Arizona, in their 1922/1923 season[https://phoenixtheaterhistory.com/companies/phoenix-theatre-phoenix-little-theatre/plt-1920s/].  
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A comedy about shenanigans in a florist’s shop when a spinster receives an expensive corsage from an unnamed person and tries to discover who sent it, written by Winifred Hawkridge when she was a "special" Radcliffe student attending Professor George Pierce Baker's renowned Workshop 47 at Harvard University.  It was one of several short plays she wrote that were staged through the workshop, including a special presentation at the Garrick Theatre in New York.  
  
The text published by Walter H. Baker Co, Boston in 1926
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''[[The Florist Shop]]'' was first performed by the Harvard Dramatic Club in April 1915, at Brattle Hall, Cambridge, and in the old Copley Hall, Boston.
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The text was also published as a monograph by Walter H. Baker Co, Boston in 1926.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:20, 9 October 2023

The Florist Shop is a play in one act by Winifred Hawkridge ()[].

The original text

A comedy about shenanigans in a florist’s shop when a spinster receives an expensive corsage from an unnamed person and tries to discover who sent it, written by Winifred Hawkridge when she was a "special" Radcliffe student attending Professor George Pierce Baker's renowned Workshop 47 at Harvard University. It was one of several short plays she wrote that were staged through the workshop, including a special presentation at the Garrick Theatre in New York.

The Florist Shop was first performed by the Harvard Dramatic Club in April 1915, at Brattle Hall, Cambridge, and in the old Copley Hall, Boston. [1]

The text was also published as a monograph by Walter H. Baker Co, Boston in 1926.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans as Die Blommewinkel by Bernie Visser.

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Florist-Shop-Play-Act-HAWKRIDGE-Winifred/9735282562/bd

Facsimile version of the 1926 published text, The Internet Archive[2]

https://phoenixtheaterhistory.com/companies/phoenix-theatre-phoenix-little-theatre/plt-1920s/

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