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> Charles Mee: Plays, Production Notes, Short Biography
soot and spit, the musical
| Author(s): | Mee, Charles |
| Title: | soot and spit, the musical |
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| Bookmark as: | http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:29666 |
| Abstract: | The world of James Castle, who made art not to get rich, not to get famous, not to be cool, but because he needed to. We see his drawings projected on the walls of the ice house that his family gave him as a place to work. Full of songs and dances, the music of John Hartford, the shape note songs of the the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, songs by Blind Lemon Jefferson, by the Memphis jug band, in which one of the members played an empty whiskey bottle, by the blind Louisiana guitarist Didier Hebert, by Cannon's Jug Stompers (led by Gus Cannon, whose parents were born into slavery, and whose first banjo was made from a bread-pan and a raccoon skin head). 9 actors and a chorus of a half-dozen performers with Down Syndrome. A NOTE ON CASTING: It might seem ridiculously difficult to imagine having a half-dozen performers with Down Syndrome in a piece, but, in truth, nearly all facilities and communities that are set up for people with Down Syndrome have active programs in performance and singing--and it should be the easiest task of all in staging this piece to find a half -dozen very accomplished and experienced performers with Down Syndrome. |
| Collection(s): | Charles Mee: Plays, Production Notes, Short Biography
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