Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Out of the Dark

The Production mentioned below is called: OUT OF THE DARK. It runs Friday through Sunday @8pm. It is at the Martha Nell Hardy Theater: Bingham Hall Room 203 on UNC Campus.
$7 Gen Admin; $5 Student/Seniors/UNC employees. Here is the verbal trailer:
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A collection of stories based on a Appalachian woman's ethnographic interviews with Virginia coal miners. The miners describe a relationship with the earth like no other-- in love with this dangerous place, working in 36 inch crawl spaces hundreds of feet under the mountains inhaling coal dust as they breath in the mines, they say that mining gets in your blood.

Growing up as proud 3rd generation miners in a region stigmatized as dirty stupid and poor, these stories tell a different narrative of Appalachia through music dance and storytelling. These interviews reveal how coal miners uild comunity and identity in the mines and later come to terms with disabling injuries that force them to leave the mines and comunities they love.
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I cannot vouch for the goodness of this production. It may be great; it may be terrible. I just thought it might be something different for peoples to do. If you are local and want to go, let me know, and invite a friend.

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