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Art in a Democracy

Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays, 1
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Collaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadside's intercultural and issue-specific theater work, including long-term collaborations with the African American Junebug Productions in New Orleans and the Puerto Rican Pregones Theater in the South Bronx, as well as with residents on both sides of the walls of recently-built prisons. Roadside has spent 45 years searching for what art in a democracy might look like. The anthology raises questions such as, What are common principles and common barriers to achieving democracy across disciplines, and how can the disciplines unite in common democratic cause?
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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