John Adams College revives A.A. Milne’s forgotten play, The Ivory Door

Students at John Adams College have banded together to create the first-ever dramatized, full-cast audio recording of the long-forgotten play, The Ivory Door. 

Gathered around a table in the school library, fourteen students and three professors theatrically read out the lines of their respective characters. A microphone sits in the table’s center to provide professional sound, connected to a laptop recording every word. While this play has been captured through mediums in the past, including a new printed edition published through the college by recent graduate Addy Eisenach Daw, this event marks the first time it has been performed as an audio drama.

Written in 1927, The Ivory Door saw a brief period of popularity in American and British theaters, but quickly fizzled out into obscurity.