10 Touring Productions:

New Ground Revival, a musical play with 28 songs accompanied by banjo, guitar, and fiddle. A collaboration with the Mullins Family Singers of Dickenson County, Virginia.

Revival Singing on the Mountain, a rousing concert of music celebrating Appalachian Mountain family harmony singing, featuring Roadside and the Mullins Family Singers.

Junebug/Jack, a collaboration with Junebug Productions of New Orleans which explores issues of race, class, and place through the stories and songs of two cultures.

RoadBug, a collaboration with Junebug Productions made for children to enjoy stories and music from the African American and Appalachian cultures.

Mountain Tales and Music, an energetic performance of traditional tales and songs of the Appalachian Mountains — fun for all ages.

Cumberland Mountain Memories, an engaging collection of stories and traditional and original music indigenous to the Cumberland Plateau.

Borderline, a lively telling, through story and song, of the history of the Scotch-Irish people in Central Appalachia.

Corn Mountain/Pine Mountain: Following the Seasons, an exciting collaboration with traditional Native American artists, Idiwanan An Chawe of Pueblo Zuni, New Mexico.

Voices from the Battlefront, a performance/workshop with music that explores the personal stories of victims and survivors of domestic violence.

Coming Attraction:

Untitled, a Junebug-Pregones-Roadside musical: New Orleans, the South Bronx, and the Cumberland Plateau meet on the subject of love.

New Publication
JOURNEYS HOME: Revealing a Zuni/Appalachia Collaboration
Zuni A:shiwi Publishing is preparing Journeys Home: Revealing A Zuni/Appalachia Collaboration for publication in 2000. The 128 page bilingual book will combine play text, interviews, language essays, photographic images, drawings, and a music and spoken word cd to probe and document the collaboration between Idiwanan An Chawe from Pueblo Zuni and Roadside Theater.
For the bilingual Zuni community, and especially its youth who are the first generation to write the Zuni language, Journeys Home will be a landmark publication. Nationally, the book and accompanying cd will be compelling to anyone wishing to learn about two of our unique U.S. cultures, and how some of their artists collaborated with each other over a 15 year period.

“Singing” — New Music CD/Tape Available
Roadside Theater’s new music recording includes songs from South of the Mountain and Leaving Egypt, as well as music from two collaborations, Corn Mountain/Pine Mountain with Idiwanan An Chawe from Pueblo Zuni, New Mexico, and New Ground Revival with the Mullins Family Singers from Dickenson County, Virginia. Selections include, “Cities of Gold,” “I’ll Fly Away,” and “Dona Odanne” (“Turkey Dance”).
To purchase a “Singing” recording, send check or money order for $10 (tape) or $15 (CD) to Roadside Theater, 91 Madison Ave., Whitesburg, KY 41858.

Storytelling Theater: Culture, Communication and Community. Janet Salmons-Rue, Editor. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, 1993, 46 pages. $6.
An examination of Roadside Theater and Cornell University’s Center for Theater Arts’ Community-Based Arts Project, a comprehensive program which integrated college study, elementary and secondary school curricular work, in-service training for teachers and agency staff, and non-formal education for young people and senior adults.

SECOND PRINTING - From The Ground Up: Grassroots Theater in Historical and Contemporary Perspective. Dudley Cocke, Harry Newman, and Janet Salmons-Rue, Editors. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, 1993, 93 pages. $6
The history and contemporary practice of grassroots theater is examined as a means for social and political change and cultural understanding. Popular as a college text book.

Alternate ROOTS New Plays From Southern Theatre. Valetta Anderson and Kathie de Nobriga, Editors. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann Educational Books, 1994, 450 pages.$20.
Seven southern plays including Roadside Theater's nationally acclaimed Red Fox/Second Hangin'--the true account of the hanging of M.B. 'Doc' Taylor, the Red Fox, and the law-and-order campaign of the Northern speculators for the purpose of establishing their coal-mining operations in the last decade of 19th century Appalachia.

A Southern Appalachian Reader. Nellie McNeil and Joyce Squibb, Editors. Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium, 1988, 529 pages.
A survey of Appalachian literature including Roadside Theater's popular South of the Mountain, a play about the changes two generations of a mountain family face as farming yields to coal-mining.

Voices from the Battlefront: Achieving Cultural Equity. Marta Moreno Vega and Cheryll Y. Greene, Editors. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc., 1993, 191 pages. $20.
Essays by seventeen diverse artists and cultural activists from the United States, Britain, Ghana, Mexico, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico on the issues of racial equality and cultural equity. Includes "Appalachia, Democracy, and Cultural Equity" by Roadside's Dudley Cocke.

You and Your Community’s Story. Whitesburg, KY: Roadside Theater, 1995, 14 pages. $3. A guide to the concepts and events frequently used in Roadside Theater community cultural residencies.

Video:

The News Hour. PBS, 1991, VHS, color, 5 minutes.$295
Shipping & handling charge. Excerpt from the news program focusing on Roadside Theater’s work and philosophy, including interviews with company members and scenes from performances.

Red Fox/Second Hangin’. Appalshop Films, 1984, VHS, color, 90 minutes. $295-sale, $90-rental.
Video of Roadside Theater’s play about he hanging of M.B. “Doc” Taylor (The Red Fox), a medical doctor, preacher and U.S. marshal, and the law-and-order campaign of Northern speculators intent on establishing their coalmining operations just before the turn of the century on the Cumberland Plateau.

For information on these and other Roadside Theater resource materials, contact us at roadside@appalshop.org.