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The America Plays

A series of site-specific plays created by Playwright Patrick Gabridge, Artist-in-Residence

Friends of Mount Auburn presents

The America Plays

A series of site-specific plays created by Playwright Patrick Gabridge, Mount Auburn Cemetery Artist-in-Residence

Directed by Courtney O’Connor Produced by Plays in Place

Thursday, September 12th: 1 pm & 5 pm Saturday, September 14th: 1 pm & 5 pm Sunday, September 15th: 1 pm & 5 pm Thursday, September 19th: 1 pm & 5 pm Saturday, September 21st: 1 pm & 5 pm Sunday, September 22nd: 1 pm & 5 pm A Note from the Playwright/Artist-in-Residence The two years of my residency have felt like a precious gift—a chance to explore a sublime landscape, commune with nature, and get to know the insightful and hard-working staff. And to get to know some of the 100,000 people buried here. One of the immense challenges of creating plays for this Cemetery is that there is an overflowing trove of compelling stories and interesting characters, some well-known, others mostly invisible. After months of initial research, I struggled to choose which stories to write about. What could unite them? At the time, I was also struggling to understand our current political climate, trying to make sense of our country. In such moments, turning back to history can be a great help. I realized that there were stories here that tied to the formation of our American identity, though not all in obvious ways. Mount Auburn’s founding came at a moment of a great question: in a post-Revolution world, what would our nation become? Jacob Bigelow and ’s vision for Mount Auburn was part of the how that answer was crafted in New England. The Civil War shifted that question yet again. During all of this, women and people of color were searching for answers to how they would or would not be included—Harriot Hunt, , , and all found different answers. America’s response to immigration, particularly to the influx of refugees from the Armenian Genocide, showed glimpses of how we might move through the 20th Century. When I heard about Azniv Amirian, I knew I needed to write about her family’s journey to escape violence and find a new home.

Thank you for joining us to meet these people who have become so dear to me, and to our entire team. This Cemetery is an incredible resource of history and nature, as well as an important oasis in the city where we can take a breath and ponder the paths we have trod and the way that lies ahead.

- PATRICK GABRIDGE Plays / Cast Man of Vision (1872) Jacob Bigelow Ken Baltin* Mary Bigelow Newhouse* Martin Milmore Mathew C. Ryan Harriot Kezia Hunt Karen MacDonald*

Consecration (1831) Joseph Story Robert Najarian* Poetry Cheryl D. Singleton*, Ken Baltin* Karen MacDonald* Mathew C. Ryan Amanda Collins* Poems by Emily Dickinson, , Carolyn Frances Orne, Henry Wadsworth Longellow,

Variations on an Unissued Apology Harriot Kezia Hunt Karen MacDonald* Edmonia Lewis Cheryl D. Singleton* Jacob Bigelow Ken Baltin*

Rage Against The Storm Edmonia Lewis Cheryl D. Singleton* Harriet Hosmer Amanda Collins* Charlotte Cushman Sarah Newhouse*

All The Broken Pieces Tzolag Mathew C. Ryan Kaloosd Ken Baltin* Grandmother Cheryl D. Singleton* Takoohy Sarah Newhouse* Azniv Amanda Collins* Garabed Robert Najarian* Regina Karen MacDonald*

*Appearing through an Agreement between the Friends of Mount Auburn, Plays in Place, and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Production Crew

Written by Patrick Gabridge Directed by Courtney O’Connor Produced by Plays in Place

Stage Manager: Adele Nadine Traub* Costume Design: Amanda Mujica Wig Design: Jason Allen Sound Design: Arshan Gailus Production Assistant Stage Manager: Jamie Carty Rehersal Assistant Stage Manager: Megan O’Donnell Assistant Producer/Director: Drew Hawkinson Marketing: Rachel Lucas Cast Bios

Sarah Newhouse* Mathew C. Ryan Amanda Collins*

Ken Baltin* Cheryl D. Singleton* Karen MacDonald*

Robert Najarian* Ken Baltin* (Jacob Bigelow, Kaloosd) recently played Andrew Oliver in Patrick Gabridge’s Blood on the Snow at ’s Old State House. He appeared last season in Heartland at New Repertory , and in My Station in Life at Gloucester Stage Company for which he received an Eliot Norton Award as Outstanding Actor. Other acclaimed productions on area stages include Death of a Salesman, Glengarry Glen Ross, Lost in Yonkers, Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Lyric Stage); Kite Runner, Eurydice, Waiting for Godot, American Buffalo (New Repertory Company); Deported-a dream play, King of the Jews, Permanent Whole Life (Boston Playwrights Theatre); Operation Epsilon (Nora Theatre); Copenhagen, A Screenwriter’s Daughter, Not Constantinople (Vineyard Playhouse); Oleanna (Merrimack Repertory); Beckett in Brief (Commonwealth Shakespeare) and many others.

Amanda Collins* (Harriet Hosmer, Asniv) Amanda has worked with many Boston-area theaters including the Huntington, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., Boston Playwrights’, Gloucester Stage, Wheelock Family Theater, Central Square Theatre, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT), Cape Rep, Publick Theatre, and Orfeo Group. Regional: The Outfit in NY and , American Stage in Florida, founding member of Harbor Stage Company. Upcoming shows: The Thanksgiving Play (Lyric Stage), Bright Half Life (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), The Lowell Offering (Merrimack Rep). She recently won an Elliot Norton Award for her performance in Merrimack Rep’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. Television: Olive Kitteridge (HBO), Castle Rock (Hulu) and Boston’s Finest (ABC Pilot). Film: Sea of Trees.

Karen MacDonald (Harriot Kezia Hunt, Regina) Recent credits include Escaped Alone (Gamm Theatre), Universe Rushing Apart (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Calendar Girls (Greater Boston Stage Company). She has appeared at the Huntington Theatre, Trinity Rep, Speakeasy Stage, New Rep, Gloucester Stage, Lyric Stage, Israeli Stage, Merrimack Rep Theatre, Portland Stage, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Boston Theatre Company, Sleeping Weazel, Vineyard Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Shakespeare and Co., and Berkshire Playwrights Lab. A Founding Company Member of the American Repertory Theatre, she appeared in 74 productions. On Broadway, she understudied and performed the role of Amanda Wingfield in John Tiffany’s revival ofThe Glass Menagerie. In 2010, she received The Robert Brustein Award for Sustained Achievement in The Theater and the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence. She teaches at .

Robert Najarian* (Joseph Story, Garabed) is an actor, fight choreographer, instructor, and author. New York: Sleep No More (Punchdrunk/Emursive), Daybreak (Pan Asian Repertory Theater), Macbeth (Shelter Theater). Regional: Sleep No More (American Repertory Theater), Talley’s Folly (Purple Rose Theater Company), The Kite Runner (New Repertory Theatre), Copenhagen, Einstein’s Dreams (Central Square Theatre), Don Giovanni (Washington National Opera), Shear Madness (Charles Street Playhouse). Fight choreography for numerous theaters including American Repertory Theater, SITI Company / Emerson Stage, and Boston Lyric Opera. M.F.A.: The Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting at the University. Unions: AEA, SAG-AFTRA, SDC. His book The Art of Unarmed Stage Combat is available through Routledge.

Sarah Newhouse* (Mary Bigelow, Charlotte Cushman, Takoohy) is a Boston-based actor/director/producer/educator who has long admired the beauty of Mount Auburn Cemetery, and is delighted to have the opportunity to spend even more time within its gates. Select Boston area credits include A.R.T., Boston Playwrights Theatre, Greater Boston Stage Co., Lyric Stage Company, Gloucester Stage Company, and New Repertory Theatre. She is a founding company member of the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, with whom she has performed more than 20 roles in 14 years. Sarah is a graduate of Hampshire College and the ART Institute at Harvard University, and lives in Watertown with her spouse and newly minted college freshman. For the beloveds on Euonymus Path...

Mathew C. Ryan (Martin Milmore, Tzolag) is very excited to be working with this talented group. Currently earning his M.A. in Theatre Education at Emerson College, he can also be seen acting around Boston, having recently been in the Mad Dash Play Fest for Fresh Ink Theatre. Thank you all for coming.

Cheryl D. Singleton* (Edmonia Lewis) is very pleased to be working with Plays in Place. Boston area credits include: Intimate Apparel and The Little Foxes (Lyric Stage Co.); Passing Strange, Dollhouse, Rent, and 1776 (New Repertory Theatre); Billy Elliot and James and the Giant Peach (Wheelock Family Theater); To Kill A Mockingbird (Gloucester Stage); Absence (Boston Playwright’s Theater); The Comedy of Errors (Commonwealth Shakespeare); The Seagull (American Repertory Theatre); The Superheroine Monologues (Phoenix Theatre Artists and Company One); Stuff Happens and The Kentucky Cycle (Zeitgeist Stage); as well as productions with Ryan Landry and The Gold Dust Orphans, Queer Soup, and ImprovBoston. A proud member of Actors’ Equity and StageSource, Cheryl serves on three arts boards in the Boston community.

Amanda Mujica (Costume Designer) is a Boston-based freelance costume designer and seamstress. In addition to theater, she has designed for dance, film, and opera. She is frequently found working backstage for touring productions needing quick alterations and in her Greater Boston studio doing custom sewing. Recent design credits include The Three Musketeers (Front Porch Theater/Greater Boston Stage Company); The Wolves, Stage Kiss, Intimate Apparel, and Mr Burns: A Post Electric Play (Lyric Stage Company of Boston); Really and An Octoroon (CompanyOne); and Anna in the Tropics, Bootycandy (SpeakEasy Stage). She earned a B.S. in History from Carnegie Mellon University. www.amandamujicadesign.com

Arshan Gailus (Sound Design) has created soundscapes and original music for theater companies including ArtsEmerson, The Huntington Theatre Company, Shakespeare & Company, Shakespeare Theater, Capital Repertory Theatre, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, A.R.T Institute, The Lyric Stage Company, New Repertory Theater, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Harvard College Theater Dance and Media Department, Brandeis University, The Nora Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Gloucester Stage Company, and Company One. Arshan was awarded the 2016 IRNE Award for Best Sound Design (Small Theater) for his design of appropriate (SpeakEasy Stage Company) and was a member of the Elliot Norton Award-winning design teams for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Company One, 2012) and Twelfth Night (Actors’ Shakespeare Project, 2011). Arshan teaches Sound Design at Emerson College where he serves as Resident Sound Designer for Emerson Stage. Arshan holds a B.S. in Music from MIT. Member USA local 829. www.arshangailus.com

Rachel Lucas (Marketing) is a public relations and marketing professional with over 20 years of experience telling client stories in the Boston area. She is especially passionate about the region’s wicked good arts and culture. Rachel honed her skills at some of Boston’s leading public relations agencies working with lifestyle clients in the areas of arts & culture, hospitality, education, fashion, real estate, health, and food. She established Rachel Lucas PR as a freelance consultancy in 2014 to work with companies and nonprofits of all size, in a range of industries. Clients have included Plays in Place, Reagle Music Theatre, The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Cancer Support Center, the Bostonian Society/Old State House, and Brown Box Theatre Project, among others. Expertise includes external messaging, media relations, and brand message development. Rachel is a graduate of Brandeis University and Law School.

Drew Hawkinson (Assistant Producer/Director) is excited to be joining this talented group of performers and collaborators in the beautiful Mount Auburn Cemetery. A recent graduate of Brown University, Drew was previously the lead producer for The Wiz, You Do You Showcase, and the Mini Musical Festival (Brown University Musical Forum). Drew is the current Production Management Intern at SpeakEasy Stage Company. He is passionate about developing new theatrical works and the intersection of health, social justice, and theatre.

Courtney O’Connor (Director) is the Associate Artistic Director for the Lyric Stage Company and a senior affiliated faculty member at Emerson College. With Patrick Gabridge and Plays in Place, Courtney has directed the world premieres of Blood on the Snow and Cato & Dolly for the Bostonian Society at the Old State House. She received her bachelor’s in English from Cabrini College and her master’s in theatre education from Emerson College. www.courtneyoc.com

Megan O’Donnell (Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be a part of The America Plays. When she’s not wandering Mount Auburn she works as a stage manager at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Jamie Carty (Production Assistant Stage Manager) is a graduate of Emerson College with a B.F.A. in Stage and Production Management. She served as the 2017-18 Stage Management Apprentice with the Huntington Theatre Company and has continued there with Sherlock’s Last Case (PA) and Indecent (ASM). Other recent credits include The Audacity: Women Speak (SM) with Sleeping Weazel, Fun Home (Young Actor Coordinator) with SpeakEasy Stage Company, and The Nutcracker (Child Supervisor) with Boston Ballet.

Adele Nadine Traub* (Stage Manager) Adele is a founding company member with Actors’ Shakespeare Project where she stage managed over twenty productions and served as the Manager of Artist Operations. Other stage management credits include I Was Most Alive With You at The Huntington Theatre Company & Playwrights Horizons (ASM), R. Buckminster Fuller at the A.R.T., plus productions with Capital Repertory Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Co, Israeli Stage, Vineyard Arts Project, Central Square Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theater, Lyric Stage Company, The Boston Conservatory, Brandeis University, and BU’s Dance Theater Group. She received her B.A. from Brandeis University, is currently the Marketing Manager at J. P. Licks and the Social Media Manager with Boston Landmarks Orchestra, teaches Stage Management at Boston College, and is a professional quilter.

*Actors’ Equity Association, founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers. Equity fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions, and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, and international organization of performing arts unions. Patrick Gabridge

Mount Auburn Cemetery Artist-in-Residence, 2018-2019

Patrick Gabridge is a Boston-based playwright, producer, screenwriter, and novelist. His plays include Mox Nox, Drift, Blood on the Snow, Chore Monkeys, and Blinders, which have been staged around the world. He’s been a Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company and is the author of four novels, most recently The Secret of Spirit Lake. Patrick co-founded the Rhombus playwright’s group, the Playwrights’ Submission Binge, and the New England New Play Alliance, and is also the Dramatists Guild’s New England Regional Rep. He is the producing artistic director of Plays in Place, which creates site-specific work for museums and historic sites.

Learn more about Patrick’s work: www.gabridge.com Character Bios Jacob Bigelow (1787-1879) was a polymath with expertise in medicine, botany, technology, and architecture. He served as a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital while teaching at Harvard, wrote pioneering works on plants, and created a new field of study that he called “the useful arts,” today called engineering. He was also a founding leader and the second president of Mount Auburn and designed several significant Cemetery landmarks including the Egyptian Revival Gateway, the gothic chapel (later named Bigelow Chapel in his honor), Washington Tower, and The American Sphinx monument. Jacob Bigelow is interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery on Beech Avenue.

Martin Milmore (1844-1883) was an acclaimed monument sculptor. He immigrated from Ireland as a child, and initially learned to carve from his older brother before entering the studio of the renowned sculptor Thomas Ball. Milmore’s most notable works include the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in and the Ceres, Flora, and Pomona for the Horticultural Hall in Boston, in addition to the American Sphinx monument at Mount Auburn memorializing the Civil War dead. Martin Milmore died at only 39 years of age from cirrhosis of the liver and is interred at in Roxbury.

Joseph Story (1779-1845) was the youngest Associate Justice ever appointed to the Supreme Court at the age of 32, where he is best remembered for The United States v. Schooner Amistad, an important abolitionist precedent case that freed the kidnapped Africans of a Portuguese slave ship. He later moved to Cambridge to serve as a Professor of Law at Harvard University, and it was during this time he gave the consecration address at Mount Auburn Cemetery’s dedication in 1831. He then served as Mount Auburn’s first president. His ten- year-old daughter, Louisa May, died only a few months before his consecration speech (she was the fourth child that he’d buried). Joseph Story is interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery on Narcissus Path.

Harriot Kezia Hunt (1805-1875) was the first woman to practice medicine in the United States. She was the first woman to apply to Harvard Medical School in 1847, but heavy criticism forced the Dean to ask her to withdraw her application. Regardless, Hunt spent decades practicing medicine and eventually received an honorary degree from the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. She was known for her independence and advocacy for women’s suffrage. She commissioned the artist Edmonia Lewis to create a of Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health, to mark her grave. Harriot Kezia Hunt is interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery on Lily Path.

Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) was the first woman of African-American and Native American heritage to achieve international fame as a sculptor. After a difficult youth, she first found popularity among the abolitionists of Boston, but only achieved true success after joining the American expatriate community in in 1866. There, she was supported by Charlotte Cushman and others, and her neoclassical sculptures such as Forever Free, The Arrow Maker, and The Death of achieved international acclaim. Edmonia Lewis is interred at Saint Mary’s Catholic Cemetery in .

Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908) was a distinguished neoclassical sculptor and considered the first professional female American sculptor. A native of Watertown, she became an acclaimed artist while a member of the expatriate community in Rome, where she was friends with fellow artist Edmonia Lewis and actress Charlotte Cushman. Her most notable works included Beatrice Cenci and Zenobia in Chains and are now in the collections of museums around the world including the MFA Boston and the Art Institute of (as well as in the Watertown Public Library). Harriet Hosmer is interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery on Hemlock Path.

Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876) was a leading American actress of the 19th century who was known for her dramatic roles, including Lady Macbeth. In 1845, she became the second American actress to appear on the London Stage and in 1852, joined the American expatriate community in Rome where she championed the works of African-American sculptor Edmonia Lewis. Cushman was also known for her tempestuous personal life, as she engaged in numerous affairs with female artists and actresses. Charlotte Cushman is interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery on Palm Avenue.

Thomas (Tzolag) Amirian (1910-1993) was an Armenian-born architectural engineer, co-founder of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and a prominent member of the Armenian American community. He was five years old in 1915 when his family fled to the Armenian city of Van, at the height of the Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Turks. He and his family arrived in Boston in 1921. Thomas’ aunt Azniv (Amirian) Kaloosd is buried with her baby on Spelman Road; the young mother died during childbirth in 1923, shortly after arriving in America. Thomas Amirian and other members of his family are buried on Magnolia Avenue. Analysis of The America Plays

Historic cemeteries like Mount Auburn are complex, multivalent sites. As Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story states in “Consecration,” they “gather up” the “broken fragments of memory” to promote “communion with the dead.” This is evident in “Man of Vision” when the distinguished Harvard professor of medicine Dr. Jacob Bigelow and his wife, Mary, offer bittersweet memories of their three dead children. This play also highlights the devastation and sorrow caused by the . As Bigelow mournfully states, “I worry there isn’t enough solemnity in the whole world for what our nation has suffered.”

When he commissions a mammoth sculpture entitled the “Sphinx” to commemorate the war dead, Bigelow’s blindness prevents him from actually seeing it, a disability that also serves as a metaphor for his failure to perceive injustices he has committed. Like Oedipus, Bigelow must be forced to confront ugly truths that he initially resists – a theme that “Variations on an Unissued Apology” explores. Bigelow’s encounter with the ghost of Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt, the unlicensed but successful Boston physician and noted woman’s rights advocate, forces him to face his prejudice against female doctors. He reluctantly admits he was wrong to oppose Hunt’s efforts to attend lectures at Harvard’s medical school, but this is small comfort to her. “To apologies. Never issued,” she bitterly declares.

The anguish caused by different kinds of betrayal also pervades “The America Plays.” In “Rage against the Storm,” for example, the ghost of the African-American sculptor Edmonia Lewis angrily recounts the racial discrimination she endured. She also stresses the betrayal suffered after the racist violence of the postwar era forced them “back under the boot” of oppressive whites. This play also examines the pain of betrayal by loved ones, notably when the of the famous nineteenth-century actress Charlotte Cushman and her former lover, the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, accuse each other of infidelity and slander. Cushman also feels betrayed by the fact that memories of her artistry will not survive. Unlike sculptors whose works endure, her performances “disappeared” once she left the stage. “I am but dust, dust, dust,” she laments.

Several plays also explore how overseas horrors seared the lives of immigrant Americans. In “All the Broken Pieces,” memories of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people in the early twentieth century haunt several generations of survivors as they struggle to establish new lives in Watertown. As Tzolag, the refugee child who becomes a successful American architect, states: “When people are broken and reassembled so many times, there are sharp edges left behind.” Terrible memories also mar the life of another successful architect, the Irish-American Martin Milmore, in “Man of Vision.” His recollections of the horrors of the Irish potato famine, that killed a million of his countrymen, drive him to work obsessively and drink excessively.

However, even as these plays explore dark themes, they also reflect how the natural beauty of Mount Auburn Cemetery mitigates people’s “regrets” and “melancholy.” As Bigelow proclaims, there is “peace to be had” in the Cemetery.

Myra C. Glenn is professor of American history at Elmira College, Elmira, NY, and the author of Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt: Nineteenth-Century Physician and Woman’s Rights Advocate (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018). Support for The Mount Auburn Plays has been generously provided by the following:

Bob Jolly Charitable Trust

This program is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This project has been funded in part by a grant from the Mildred Jones Keefe Fund for Massachusetts of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Mary T. Lee & Peter C. Aldrich

Eliza & Michael Anderson

Jennifer J. Gilbert

Patricia B. & John Jacoby

Virginia J. Brady & William F. Mann

Jeanne & Joel Mooney

Caroline V. Mortimer Music Credits

The music in “All the Broken Pieces” was written, performed, and recorded by Arshan Gailus.

www.arshangailus.com

MASTER PLANNING + LANDSCAPE DESIGN

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Halvorson Design is an award-winning master planning, landscape architecture, HALVORSONDESIGN.COM | 617 536 0380 and urban design firm known for creating compelling, timeless, resilient, and culturally relevant open spaces for municipalities, developers, and institutions. Discussion HELEN ABRAMS ROBIN RAY Moderators MARY BICHNER COURTNEY O’CONNOR PATRICK GABRIDGE ROBERTO MIGHTY DAVID RUSSO RUTH THOMASIAN MEG WINSLOW Special Thanks for The America Plays

The Rhombus Playwrights Group The Lyric Stage Company Steve Pinkerton Marilyn Richardson Myra Glenn Ed Hoopman Gillian Mackay-Smith Bill Mootos Tracy and Noah Gabridge Meg Winslow Dale Place Elle Borders Margaret Ann Brady Ruth Thomasian and Project SAVE Adrianne Amirian The HBMG Foundation and the National Winter Playwrights Retreat Tamara Sevunts

Plays In Place

Plays in Place specializes in creating site-specific plays in partnership with museums and historic sites. The company came about after the hugely successful site-specific playBlood on the Snow was commissioned and produced by the Bostonian Society at the Old State House, written by Patrick Gabridge and directed by Courtney O’Connor. The pair continued their creative partnership with Plays in Place’s first production—Cato & Dolly, a 25-minute play about unheard voices in the John Hancock household, which played in 2018 at the Old State House and returned for an eight-week run this past summer. Plays in Place is also producing two series of site-specific plays at Mount Auburn Cemetery in 2019—The Nature Plays in June, and The America Plays in September. The goal of Plays in Place is to create professional productions of new plays that fully engage audiences with the people, places, and ideas at the hearts of the partner institutions.

For more info, visit playsinplace.org.

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Mount Auburn’s endowment covers only a fraction of our expenses. Leadership donors, who comprise the 1831 Society, make it all possible. Without support from these dedicated individuals, the vision of Mount Auburn’s pioneering founders–a beautiful, natural setting that would provide comfort for the bereaved and inspiration for the public–could not be sustained. 1831 Society donors lead the way in keeping our cemetery, gardens, arboretum, and outdoor museum a beloved respite from hectic, modern life.

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Since its founding in 1831, Mount Auburn Cemetery has retained its original purpose of being a natural setting for the commemoration of the dead and for the comfort and inspiration of the bereaved and the general public. Its grounds offer a place for reflection and for observation of nature — trees, shrubs, flowering plants, ponds, gentle hills, and birds both resident and migrant. Visitors come to study our national heritage by visiting the graves of noted Americans and enjoying the great variety of monuments and memorials.

Mount Auburn Cemetery began the “rural” cemetery movement out of which grew America’s public parks. Its beauty and historic associations make it an internationally renowned landscape. Designated a National Historic Landmark, Mount Auburn remains an active, nonsectarian cemetery offering a wide variety of interment and memorialization options.

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