TY - JOUR
T1 - Fitzi, true-believer
T2 - The legacy of M. Eleanor fitzgerald
AU - Kennedy, Jeffery
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - M. Eleanor Fitzgerald (known to friends and colleagues as "Fitzi") was the long-Time business manager of the Provincetown Players and the subsequent incarnations of the group that continued until 1929. This article traces her legacy from her humble childhood in northern Wisconsin, experiences with the Seventh Day Adventist Church and Dr. Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium, to her work and relationships with anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman and their publication Mother Earth. Beginning with the Players in 1918, she ultimately served as their business manager, as well as becoming their chief organizer, protector, guiding spirit, and conscience. Her work continued with the Group Theatre, Federal Theatre Project and, finally, the Dramatic Workshop at the New School for Social Research, run by German playwright and director Erwin Piscator. Because of her passion and devotion to her work and those she worked with, she developed close and influential friendships with O'Neill, Berkman, Goldman, Piscator, and the many playwrights and actors she shepherded over the years. Malcolm Cowley wrote, "The story of the new American theater cannot truly be told without mentioning Fitzi's part in it" and this article attempts to do just that.
AB - M. Eleanor Fitzgerald (known to friends and colleagues as "Fitzi") was the long-Time business manager of the Provincetown Players and the subsequent incarnations of the group that continued until 1929. This article traces her legacy from her humble childhood in northern Wisconsin, experiences with the Seventh Day Adventist Church and Dr. Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium, to her work and relationships with anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman and their publication Mother Earth. Beginning with the Players in 1918, she ultimately served as their business manager, as well as becoming their chief organizer, protector, guiding spirit, and conscience. Her work continued with the Group Theatre, Federal Theatre Project and, finally, the Dramatic Workshop at the New School for Social Research, run by German playwright and director Erwin Piscator. Because of her passion and devotion to her work and those she worked with, she developed close and influential friendships with O'Neill, Berkman, Goldman, Piscator, and the many playwrights and actors she shepherded over the years. Malcolm Cowley wrote, "The story of the new American theater cannot truly be told without mentioning Fitzi's part in it" and this article attempts to do just that.
KW - Alexander berkman
KW - Emma goldman
KW - M. eleanor fitzi fitzgerald
KW - Piscator dramatic workshop
KW - Provincetown players
KW - Provincetown playhouse
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U2 - 10.5325/eugeoneirevi.38.1-2.0013
DO - 10.5325/eugeoneirevi.38.1-2.0013
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85040103532
SN - 1040-9483
VL - 38
SP - 13
EP - 46
JO - Eugene O'Neill Review
JF - Eugene O'Neill Review
IS - 1-2
ER -