Art in a Democracy - Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Plays, 1975–1989

Seminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins and approach of Appalachia’s Roadside TheaterThis 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.