Staging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts - Keystone Books by Leslie Stainton Details
In this fascinating and personal history of one of the oldest theaters in America, Leslie Staunton captures the story, not only for extraordinary construction, but for a country's struggle to…
In this fascinating and personal history of one of the oldest theaters in America, Leslie Staunton captures the story, not only for extraordinary construction, but for a country's struggle to invent itself. The Fulton Theater was built in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1852 and has been in use ever since.
It was founded at one time by the walls of a colonial prison. In 1763 the massacre of the last Indians of Constosta was observed.
Those same walls later served in the fugitive slaves. Stade Ground explores these tragic events and permanent ringing in a building that later became a town hall, a theater and a movie house - the show's venue, the productions of Cap Uncle Tom, speeches by Thaddeus Stevens and Mark Twain, performances by Buffalo Bell and his band of Red Indians, Hollywood Westerns, and plays in the 21st century.
Stainton intertwines between past and present attendees, a special story and a public record, revealing the story of this symbolic space, where more than 250 Americans wrote and engraved their history. The emergence of women in art and society, the spread of advertising, the flourishing of transport and technology, and the permanent contradiction of a nation based on the principle of equality of "all men" , But engaged in the slave trade and systematic repression of the American Indian..
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