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A Double-Threaded Life
''A Double-Threaded Life: The Hinton Play'' is a play by the American playwright Maryat Lee. An example of the Ecotheater Lee made famous, it consists of a series of monologues and dialogues co-written by the people of Hinton, West Virginia. Background After a successful series of street theatre plays in New York City, Lee (originally from Kentucky) moved back to Appalachia, to Summers County, West Virginia, in 1971, leaving the city also on the advice of her friend Flannery O'Connor. She bought a farm and wrote, and ran acting workshops for the locals, including inmates of the Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, Federal Women's Prison in the county. It took her a while to gain the trust of the local population, but she did, and wrote and produced a number of Ecotheater plays featuring local people as actors, including one play named for the folklore legend John Henry (folklore), John Henry. ''A Double-Threaded Life'' came about on the suggestion of a friend of hers, Jinx Johnson from Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryat Lee
Maryat Lee (born Mary Attaway Lee; May 26, 1923 – September 18, 1989) was an American playwright and theatre director who made important contributions to post-World War II avant-garde theatre, pioneering street theatre in Harlem and later founding the Eco Theater, which developed drama productions out of oral histories in Appalachia. Life and career Lee was born in Covington, Kentucky;William W. French"Maryat Lee" ''The West Virginia Encyclopedia'', retrieved December 16, 2014. her father, Dewitt Collins Lee, was a lawyer and businessman, and her mother, Grace Dyer, was a musician.Michael Ridderbusch and John Cuthbert, "Ecotheater: A West Virginia Playwright's Vision for Dramatic Art", ''West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter''14.8 (Fall 1998) pp. 3–6]. After graduating from the National Cathedral School she studied drama at Northwestern University, but found it too "artificial" and "commercial"; she transferred to Wellesley College, where she grad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |