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Virgil Geddes
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'''Virgil Geddes''' ( d. 1989) was an American playwright.<ref name="NYTimesObit">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Geddes established a theater company, The Brookfield Players, in [[Brookfield, Connecticut]] that evolved into the [[Brookfield Theatre for the Arts]].<ref name="NYTimesObit"/> Teh ocmpany worked in an erstwhile tobacco barn called the Brookfield County Playhouse.<ref name="DuffyNone">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Geddes was the long-serving postmaster in Brookfield, a job he told the [[Hartford Courant]] that he took because it offered a steady income.<ref name="SteadyIncome">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Plays==
* The Provincetown Playhouse produced his drama ''The Earth Between'', produced at [[Provincetown Playhouse]], 1929. [[Bette Davis]] was cast in one of her first roles.<ref name="SikovDavis">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="NYTimesObit"/><ref name="NextBill">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
* ''The Earth Between'', 1930. <ref name="BrooksAtkinson"/>
* ''Native Ground'', 1929;<ref name="Ground">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> produced under the auspices of the [[Federal Theatre Project]], 1937.<ref name="Kazacoff">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="NYTimesObit"/><ref name="BrooksAtkinson">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
* ''Pocahontas and the elders, a folkpiece in four acts'' 1933
==Books==
* ''Collected poems of Virgil Geddes,'' National Poetry Foundation, 1977
* ''Country Postmaster,'' 1952
Geddes established a theater company, The Brookfield Players, in [[Brookfield, Connecticut]] that evolved into the [[Brookfield Theatre for the Arts]].<ref name="NYTimesObit"/> Teh ocmpany worked in an erstwhile tobacco barn called the Brookfield County Playhouse.<ref name="DuffyNone">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Geddes was the long-serving postmaster in Brookfield, a job he told the [[Hartford Courant]] that he took because it offered a steady income.<ref name="SteadyIncome">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==Plays==
* The Provincetown Playhouse produced his drama ''The Earth Between'', produced at [[Provincetown Playhouse]], 1929. [[Bette Davis]] was cast in one of her first roles.<ref name="SikovDavis">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="NYTimesObit"/><ref name="NextBill">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
* ''The Earth Between'', 1930. <ref name="BrooksAtkinson"/>
* ''Native Ground'', 1929;<ref name="Ground">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> produced under the auspices of the [[Federal Theatre Project]], 1937.<ref name="Kazacoff">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="NYTimesObit"/><ref name="BrooksAtkinson">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
* ''Pocahontas and the elders, a folkpiece in four acts'' 1933
==Books==
* ''Collected poems of Virgil Geddes,'' National Poetry Foundation, 1977
* ''Country Postmaster,'' 1952
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