Mama? She's on the porch.(ART Station Theatre's David Thomas to adapt Bailey White's 'Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living')(Brief Article)
American Theatre, July, 2005 by Estvanik
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STONE MOUNTAIN, GA.: David Thomas (in photo), the founding artistic director of 20-year-old ART Station Theatre, had been wanting to adapt Bailey White's episodic memoir Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living for more than a decade, after hearing her spin tales about her rural Georgia roots in a gravelly drawl on National Public Radio.
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Himself a native North Caroliner, Thomas says White passes the litmus test for a good Southern writer, honoring the region's "tendency not to keep eccentric characters in the family hidden: We put them right out on on the ...
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