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Processional (play)

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Written by
  
John Howard Lawson

Genre
  
Modernist comedy

Playwright
  
John Howard Lawson

Original language
  
English

First performance
  
12 January 1925

Place premiered
  
Garrick Theatre

Processional (play)

Date premiered
  
January 12, 1925 (1925-01-12)

Subject
  
A jazz symphony of American life

Setting
  
The outskirts of a large town in the West Virginia coal fields, 1931

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Processional: A Jazz Symphony of American Life (1925) is a four-act modernist comedy by the American playwright John Howard Lawson. It was first produced by the Theatre Guild at the Garrick Theatre in New York, opening on January 12, 1925 in a two-month run. Philip Moeller directed while Mordecai Gorelik designed the sets and costumes. Lee Strasberg played the minor role of First Soldier in the production; Sanford Meisner, too, played a minor part. It was revived in 1937 at the Maxine Elliott Theatre.

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Processional (play) Wikipedia