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''[[The Florist Shop]]'' is a play in one act by Winifred Hawkridge ()[].  
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''[[The Florist Shop]]'' is a play in one act by Winifred Hawkridge ()[https://www.facebook.com/YourTheatreInc/?locale=fr_FR].  
  
 
==The original text==
 
==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.  
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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. The piece was written as a student project when Winifred Hawkridge attended Professor George Pierce Baker's renowned Workshop 47 at Harvard University as a "special" Radcliffe student.  It was one of several short plays she wrote during the course 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.
 
''[[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.
 
[https://www.facebook.com/YourTheatreInc/?locale=fr_FR]
 
[https://www.facebook.com/YourTheatreInc/?locale=fr_FR]
  
The text was also published as a monograph by Walter H. Baker Co, Boston in 1926.
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The text was first published in the volume ''Plays  of  the  Harvard    Dramatic    Club'' (First  Series.  "Harvard  Plays,"  vol.  II) by  Brentano's,  New  York, in 1918.[https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.4159/harvard.9780674493902.c51/pdf]. It was later also published as a monograph by Walter H. Baker Co, Boston in 1926.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Florist-Shop-Play-Act-HAWKRIDGE-Winifred/9735282562/bd
 
https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Florist-Shop-Play-Act-HAWKRIDGE-Winifred/9735282562/bd
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https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.4159/harvard.9780674493902.c51/pdf
  
 
Facsimile version of the 1926 published text, [[The Internet Archive]][https://ia800205.us.archive.org/10/items/floristshop00hawk/floristshop00hawk.pdf]
 
Facsimile version of the 1926 published text, [[The Internet Archive]][https://ia800205.us.archive.org/10/items/floristshop00hawk/floristshop00hawk.pdf]

Latest revision as of 06:38, 9 October 2023

The Florist Shop is a play in one act by Winifred Hawkridge ()[1].

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. The piece was written as a student project when Winifred Hawkridge attended Professor George Pierce Baker's renowned Workshop 47 at Harvard University as a "special" Radcliffe student. It was one of several short plays she wrote during the course 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. [2]

The text was first published in the volume Plays of the Harvard Dramatic Club (First Series. "Harvard Plays," vol. II) by Brentano's, New York, in 1918.[3]. It was later 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

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.4159/harvard.9780674493902.c51/pdf

Facsimile version of the 1926 published text, The Internet Archive[4]

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

https://www.facebook.com/YourTheatreInc/?locale=fr_FR

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