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...single set used in Catskill Dutch' represents the interior of the 'stoop of a Catskill mountain farm house", stated Miss Eleanor Eustis in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter, speaking of the scenery which she has designed and painted for the play to be produced at the first public performance of the 47 Workshop on February...
...wooden beams", she continues. "But if it were removed the house would still be complete against wind and weather. The house of gray-white stone masonry, appears at the side of the stage to the left of the audience, showing a casement window and steps leading up to a "Dutch" door. The stoop swings around the corner of the house at the left and back of the stage, where an unseen window admits a flood of sunset light at the end of Act 1. The end of a table covered with white cloth appears between the back wall...
...Catskill Dutch," said Mr. Brink, author of the play which will be given at the first public 47 Workshop performance on February 19, "brings before the public eye, a section of the country which until the last few years has been completely isolated from the adjoining regions. The Dutch farmers of the New York Catskills came to this country at the same time as the Puritan fathers, and like them came with strict religious views. They settled on the West bank of the Hudson in the Catskills, far from the regular routes of travel and business, keeping their religious views...
...scene of the play is laid in a Dutch villege of the Catskill mountains in 1870, and deals with the effect of the repressive influence of the old-fashioned community on the characters of its inhabitants, especially the women. The plot of the play is modelled on a true incident, related to Mr. Brink, who is himself a native of the Catskills...
...days among the Catskill Dutch," continued Mr. Brink, "the man was the sole head of the family, ruling every one in his household with an iron hand. Women among the Dutch were inferior creatures, under no circumstances ever as important...