Tell me a story, sing me a song / production team, Dudley Cocke, Anne Lewis Johnson, Susan Wehling with [seven others].

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Cocke, Dudley, filmmaker.

Lewis, Anne, 1948- filmmaker.

Wehling, Susan, filmmaker.

Appalshop, Inc., publisher.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytellers--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Storytellers.

Drama festivals--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Drama festivals.

Theatrical companies--Southern States.

Theatrical companies.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (29 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Whitesburg, KY : Appalshop Inc., 1985.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Tell Me A Story, Sing Me A Song showcases the work of three theater companies that performed together in the mid-1980s as a way to celebrate cultural pluralism and bring theater from diverse cultural traditions to underserved audiences. Members of Junebug Productions, A Traveling Jewish Theatre, and Appalshop's Roadside Theater are seen in this program in performance excerpts, interviews, and playing to a group of Calhoun County, Alabama fifth and sixth graders. The program explores how different cultural groups within the United States can use the performing arts to maintain and promote their own cultural identity while also addressing the mainstream. The American Festival Project, documented in the program Open Windows, grew out of this "ThreeWay Tour".

Participant:

Featuring performances by Junebug Productions (John O'Neal), A Traveling Jewish Theater (Corey Fischer and Albert Greenberg) and the Roadside Theater (Tommy Bledsoe, Nancy Jeffrey, and Ron Short).

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed September 22, 2025).

OCLC:

1531304012