"I believe my play is really `going through'": Edith Wharton's The Shadow of a Doubt: A Play in Three Acts in Performance

Edith Wharton's The Shadow of a Doubt, a play in three acts, has generated extensive publicity as well as interest in staged readings. Now, The Shadow of a Doubt has been completely professionally staged for the first time at the 2023 Shaw Hinton-Davis sought to preserve Wharton's original intentions as well as offer a new interpretation of this now modern classic. In early 1901, the play was already in rehearsal for a matinee with the Empire Theatre Acting Company, directed by how the rehearsals are going and gossips about De Wolfe. In addition, an actual promptbook from this 1901 production of The Shadow of a Doubt was located sure shows the revisions to the play as it was in rehearsals and includes blocking and stage directions. This history suggests Wharton was an engaged playwright, attending rehearsals and participating in all aspects of the dramatic artistic experience.