Ballad Hunter
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Opened Mar 24, 2000
Closed Apr 23, 2000
Opened Mar 24, 2000
Closed Apr 23, 2000
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BALLAD HUNTER is a full-length drama set in 1937 on an isolated Appalachian mountain in Virginia. Struggling to survive, three generations of women become convinced they are cursed when everything around them mysteriously starts to die. To make matters worse, F.D.R.'s New Deal reaches an unwelcome arm into this mysterious land in the person of an idealistic stranger from the Rural Electrification Administration, who comes to modernize the mountain with electricity and break the women's chain of superstition and guilt.
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The photo display in the Chicago Dramatists lobby chronicles pioneering musical folklorists John Lomax, Jean Ritchie, John Jacob Niles, and others who combed the hills of Appalachia as early as 1908, collecting mountain music descended from the English and Scots-Irish traditions. I grew up listening to performances by Ritchie and Niles in their maturity, so it was of particular interest to see the photos of them when they were young.
The display coincides with the world premiere of Ballad Hunter, which recently won the $5,000 Cunningham Prize for Drama for its author, Jenny Laird (a Chicago Dramatists resident playwright). The play surprised me--disappointed me, I must confess--beca[...]