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Art in a Democracy

Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Pl
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Seminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins and approach of Appalachia's Roadside Theater This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roadside Theater's first 45 years and includes nine award-winning original play scripts; ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations, which explore the plays' social, economic, and political circumstances; and a critical recounting of the theater's history from 1975 through 2020. The plays in Volume 1 offer a people's history of the Appalachian coalfields, from the European incursion through the American War in Vietnam.
Roadside Theater, founded in 1975, is a wing of the rural arts and humanities institution Appalshop. Roadside Theater has created Appalachia's largest single body of original plays and collaborated with racially diverse professional theaters and communities across the country to make new plays that address pressing civil rights, economic, and cultural issues of our times. The theater is invested in achieving inclusive community well-being through cultural expression that intentionally breaches lines of race, class, gender, age, disability, and more. Roadside is distinguished by its multi-generational audience of economically poor, working-class, and middle-class rural and urban people.
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