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Drama Notes
M. M. | March 20, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on the play "The Earth Between," by Virgil Geddes, staged at the Provincetown Playhouse. Nat Jennings lost his wife and fell in love with his seventeen-year-old daughter. Jake, the farm hand, looked at that same daughter longingly, but the pre-Freudian father relegated Jake to the barn, where his bed of damp hay gave him pneumonia, and he died. The play ends in the father's triumphant embrace of his daughter-an embrace that suggests approaching incest. Geddes has wisely chosen a farm as the natural scene of his dark struggle and, in spite of the physical limitations of the Provincetown Playhouse, has succeeded in producing an authentic atmosphere.

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EARTH Between, The (Theatrical production); GEDDES, Virgil; INCEST; INBREEDING; FAMILY; DRAMA
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