The Appalachian difference: a Virginia festival takes its theatrical stereotypes seriously.(CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK)
American Theatre, November, 2006 by Kornhaber, David
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It's not unusual to see a new play about the nefarious exploits of drug dealers and the devastating effects their actions can have on their families and communities. It is perhaps more unusual for the fictional drug dealers to be an 80-year-old grandmother renowned for her quilting skills and a 40-something door-to-door cosmetics saleswoman.
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Equally strange, perhaps, is that the drug in question is not heroin or cocaine but prescription Oxycontin, that the drug dealers reside not in the inner city but in the isolated mountain communities of Kentucky, and that the play chronicling ...
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