Blue Jeans (play)

Blue Jeans
1899 poster depicting the famous saw mill scene from Blue Jeans
Written byJoseph Arthur
Date premieredOctober 6, 1890 (1890-10-06) (New York)
1898 (London)
Place premieredFourteenth Street Theatre, New York City
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama
SettingIndiana, USA

Blue Jeans is a melodramatic play by Joseph Arthur that opened in New York City in 1890 to great popularity. The sensation of the play is a scene where the unconscious hero is placed on a board approaching a huge buzz saw in a sawmill, which became one of the most imitated dramatic scenes (eventually to the point of cliche and parody). The play remained popular for decades and was made into a successful silent film in 1917, also named Blue Jeans.

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