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Florida State Play - Cross and Sword
Florida's State Play is Cross and Sword. Cross and Sword, an outdoor
reenactment of the founding of St.Augustine. This play was created in
honor of the St. Augustine’s 400th Anniversary in 1965. Paul Green,
winner of 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his Broadway play in Abraham’s
Bosom, wrote it.
Earlier in 1937, with North Carolina’s The Lost Colony, Green created
the “symphonic drama,” a mixture of music, pantomime, dance
and poetic dialogue into one larger than life historical play, made him
into the sort of this project. On June 27, 1965, and in 1973, Cross and
Sword, the Florida’s official state play was designated by the Florida
Legislature.
Cross and Sword is the play, which asked the state Division of Cultural
Affairs for $27,089 in 1997 and was turned down. The 1996 season was shows
last, renovations were meanwhile been made to the amphitheater that had
continued to be used for other things. There is always a possibility that
Cross and Sword will be revived, someday, for at least a limited run if
not at the same perpetual as before.