Southern Theater for Social Change
Document Type
Book Contribution
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Description
When Bob Leonard started The Road Company in 1975 in the mountains of East Tennessee, he aimed to create plays with local people and their stories.1 He was interested in changing the cultural and social landscape. He was not the only one tracing small town routes-or roots-in the 1970s. His vision was part of a theater and arts movement fueled by the politics of the time and some government funding. Would people embrace, or even come see, an experimental theater company dedicated to shaking things up? Would they be changed by the experience? That would be the challenge to the theater companies.
Citation Information
Arnow, Pat. 2006. Southern Theater for Social Change. Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction. 191-209. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230601789_10 ISBN: 9780230601789,9781403974099