Foxfire
- Dates
- Nov 11, 1982 – May 15, 1983
- Performances
- 213
About
Foxfire is a play with songs and book by Susan Cooper, Hume Cronyn, music by Jonathan Brielle (Holtzman) and lyrics by Susan Cooper, Hume Cronyn, and Jonathan Brielle. The show was based on the Foxfire books, about Appalachian culture and traditions in north Georgia and the struggle to keep the traditions alive. The play was first produced at the Stratford Festival in 1980. The play received its U.S. premiere at the Guthrie Theater in September 1981, with Jessica Tandy (Annie Nations), Hume Cronyn (Hector Nations), William Newman (Prinz Carpenter), Katherine Cortez (Holly Burrell), Richard Cox (Dillard Nations) and Oliver Cliff (Doctor) in the cast, directed by Marshall Mason. The 1982 Broadway production starred Jessica Tandy, Cronyn's wife, who won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding A...