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Grove Play
The Grove Play is an annual theatrical production written, produced and performed by and for Bohemian Club members, and staged outdoors in California at the Bohemian Grove each summer. In 1878, the Bohemian Club of San Francisco first took to the woods for a summer celebration that they called midsummer High Jinks.Ogden, 1990, p. 28. Poems were recited, songs were sung, and dramatic readings were given. In 1881, the ceremony of the ''Cremation of Care'' was first conducted after the various individual performances. Eventually, the readings and songs were woven into a theme or framework, such as in the solemn Orientalism-themed ''Buddha Jinks'' of 1892 and the Christianity-triumphs-over-paganism-themed ''Druid Jinks'' the next year. In 1897, the ''Faust Jinks'' were constructed within the musical form of Charles Gounod's opera Faust (opera), ''Faust''.Garnett, 1908, p. 22. Finally, in 1902, both the music and the libretto were composed by club members, setting the "Bohemian grove-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maynard Dixon - The Apparition Of Cuchulainn
Maynard may refer to: Names * Maynard (given name) * Maynard (surname) Places Canada * Maynard, Ontario, a village in Augusta Township United States * Maynard, Arkansas * Maynard, Iowa * Maynard, Kentucky * Maynard, Massachusetts * Maynard, Minnesota * Maynard, Ohio Other uses * Maynard (album), ''Maynard'' (album), by Maynard Ferguson, 1981 * Maynard (software), a shell for Weston competing with the GNOME Shell * Maynard Electronics, an American company that manufactured tape drives in the 1990s * The Maynard School, a girls' school in Exeter, UK * Maynard tape primer, a system for reloading muskets * Maynards, a sweets manufacturer in the United Kingdom See also * Justice Maynard (other) * ''Maynard v. Cartwright'', a 1988 United States Supreme Court case * {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
