Title

Paul Green, Quare Medicine Saturday, November 7

Date

1943-1944

Century

20th century

Medium & Support

Ink on paper

Object Type

Archival Documents

Credit Line

Black Mountain College Collection, gift of Barbara Beate Dreier and Theodore Dreier, Jr. on behalf of all generations of Dreier family

Accession Number

2017.40.279

In Copyright, Educational Use Permitted

Description

Mimeograph on offwhite paper, one sheet, folded horizontally, printed two sides.

The Black Mountain College Players presents a laboratory performance of Paul Green’s “Quare Medicine”
Case Old Man Jernigan Dick Brown
Henry Jernigan, his son Herb Oppenheimer
Mattie Jernigan, Henry’s wife Betty Kelley
Doctor Immanuel Paul Snyder
Scene The sitting room of the Jernigan farmhouse in eastern North Carolina
Time Several years ago, at the close of a winter day
Black Mountain College Saturday, November 7 8:30 p.m.

“Quare Medicine” was Paul Green’s first comedy, Frederick Koch of the Carolina Playmakers says of its subject: “To those acquainted with the rural life of Eastern Carolina as it was a few years ago, the patent- medicine vender or quack doctor is not unknown. Formerly this species of cure-all could be met with frequently as he plied his trade among the country people with considerable profit to himself.
……..These doctors often exercised among their clientele both a veterinary and a spiritual influence hard to conceive of now.”

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