Roadside Theater collection, 1975-2005
Collection (Roadside Theater collection)
- Extent
- 26 Linear feet paper
- 6 Film containers
- 146 Video cassettes
- 91 Audio cassettes
- 21 Filmstrips
- 1,200 Photographic images
- Scope and Contents
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The Roadside Theater collection contains more than 200 drafts of original play scripts; audio, video, print, and photographic documentation of the plays’ production processes and presentations in 43 states and internationally; books authored, co-authored, and co-edited by Roadside; detailed multi-media documentation of the theater’s more than 300 national community cultural development residencies in 29 states; and extensive critical writing about the ensemble’s artistic, management, and community engagement theories, methods, practices, and impacts.
- Abstract
- Roadside Theater is the performing arts division of Appalshop, a multi-disciplinary media arts and education center located in southeastern Kentucky. The Roadside Theater collection consists of drafts of original play scripts; audio, video, print, and photographic documentation of the plays’ production processes and presentations; books authored, co-authored, and co-edited by Roadside; detailed multi-media documentation of the theater’s community cultural development residencies; and critical writing about the ensemble’s artistic, management, and community engagement theories, methods, practices, and impacts.
- Historical Note
- Roadside Theater is a professional ensemble theater and a division of Appalshop, a multi-disciplinary, rural arts and education center located in Whitesburg, Kentucky. The company was founded in 1975 to explore Appalachian historical narrative through local materials such as oral histories, traditional ballads and archetypal stories, the forms of indigenous church services, and personal memory. The ensemble has performed locally, nationally, and internationally. Over the years, the company developed community-based cultural exchange projects and created intercultural plays with other professional ensembles to explore issues of race and class in the United States. More recently, Roadside Theater developed a methodology through which communities can use cultural resources to transform their histories into public performances based in local aesthetic forms.
- Subjects
- Folk culture, Roadside Theater, Community performance theater
- Topics, Library of Congress Authority
- Appalachians (People), Appalachian Region--History, Social practice (Art)
- External Links
- Roadside Theater: Art in a Democracy
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