Special Feature: North Carolina Drama
cover photography by Mary Shannon Johnstone
North Carolina Drama: From the Page to the Stage and Back to the Page
section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]
Special thanks go to East Carolina University playwright Robert (Bob) Siegel for all his help with this special feature section. We also thank the numerous theaters, among others, who responded so generously to our calls for photographs of the various plays referenced throughout the drama section of this issue. And finally, we are very grateful to the Paul Green Foundation, who, after already
generously providing photographs and permission to publish Green material – at no fee – responded quickly and enthusiastically to our request for help with additional funds for this issue of NCLR, featuring North Carolina Drama.
“[What] the American Public Needs”:
A Theater of the People”
an interview with Paul Green by William Howard Rough
White Dresses
a play by Paul Green
introduced by Margaret D. Bauer
Paul Green’s Legacy
an essay by Laurence G. Avery
Kermit Hunter’s Treasure in the High Country
by Nancy Spann
Finding Clara
excerpts from a play by June Guralnick
Afterward: Dramatic Renderings of the 1929 Loray Mill Strike
by Walter Squire
Recovering “moral and sexual chaos” in Tennessee Williams’s Clothes for a Summer Hotel
by Annette J. Saddik
An Inimitable icon: The inspiration of Zelda Fitzgerald
by Olivia Everett
North Carolina Literary and Historical Association Announces Newly Established Hardee-Rives Drama Award
by Lorraine Hale Robinson
Muscle Men, Tennessee Williams, and the State of Southern Drama: An Interview with Jim Grimsley
by Gary Richards
Mr. Williams and Mr. Universe: Jim Grimsley’s Queer Intertextuality
by Gary Richards
20th Southern Writers Symposium Celebrates
North Carolina Writers
by Rebecca L. Godwin
Waiting for Edward: Elizabeth Spencer’s For Lease or Sale
by Terry Roberts
A Shining Light in the Piazza
by Gary Richards
An Elizabethan Drama
an afterword by Elizabeth Spencer
Lovers
a play by Richard Krawiec
photography by Jacquelyn Tait Leebrick
Husbands Found Dead
a play by Kat Meads
photography by Jacquelyn Tait Leebrick
Love Poem, Ignition Switch, and Responsibility
three plays by Sam Post
photography by Mary Shannon Johnstone
Child of Paradise: A Tribute to Linwood Taylor
by Bland Simpson
Drama Dean Gerald Freedman Receives a
North Carolina Award for Fine Arts
by Maggie Rogers
Adventures in Musicians’ Theater: 35 Years of
Roots-Music Shows
by Bland Simpson
“Oh, but she speaks her mind”: Good Ol’ Girls from Stage to Screen
by Olivia Everett
Bo Knows Theater and Dancing (and . . . )
a tribute by Sue Laslie Kimball
Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues
Read, Recall, Renew
section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]
“Anyone who works with the literary community of North Carolina can attest to the strong nature of community among the writers and readers and librarians.”
North Carolina’s German Literary Heritage:
A (Still, Small) Voice Waiting to be Heard
an essay by M. Luther Stirewalt, Jr.
The Substitute
a poem by James Magorian
art by James Lancel McElhinney
Coup
a poem by Michael White
Listen to the poet read and answer questions about “Coup.” ?
North Carolina Miscellany
“North Carolina . . . rich in literary resources”
section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]
“Anyone who works with the literary community of North Carolina can attest to the strong nature of community among the writers and readers and librarians.”
Working with the Wiggle: An Interview with Betty Adcock
by James Smith
Two Poems with One Epigraph, Aegean Notes,
and White Rhinoceros
three poems by Betty Adcock
Slantwisdom
a review by Robert West of Betty Adcock’s new poetry collection
To Tell, Not To Tell, To Tell It Slant?
a review by Catherine Carter of three new poetry collections
Shape Notes
a poem by Marty Silverthorne
art by David Terry
The State of Poetry in North Carolina
a review by Jeffrey Franklin
“An Appalachian-in-Exile”: Michael Chitwood Receives a Second Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry
presentation remarks by Michael McFee
English Leather Lime
a poem by Julia Nunnally Duncan
art by Duy Huynh
James Applewhite Inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
presentation remarks by Rebecca L. Godwin
A Tribute to Doris Betts, Recipient of the
2008 Roberts Award for Literary Inspiration
presentation remarks by Maurice C. York
The Whales Moved On
the 2008 Doris Betts Prize story by Malcolm Campbell
art by Mike Hoyt
Have You Seen Me?
the 2008 Doris Betts 2nd place story by Gregg Cusick
photography by Louanne Watley
“I am not Kitty Duncan”: Two Interviews with Kat Meads
by Margaret D. Bauer and Liza Wieland
William Conescu: Writing Life as it Happens
an interview by Louisa J. Dang
Gothic Realism in Reynolds Price’s Kate Vaiden
by Peggy Dunn Bailey
Literary Inspiration Award to Honor Reynolds Price
by Elizabeth Howland
Crimes Close to Home
a review by Art Taylor of John Hart’s North Carolina mysteries
Two North Carolina Awards for Literature in 2008
by Maggie Rogers
The Bible Salesman and the Magician
a review by George Hovis of novels by Clyde Edgerton and Daniel Wallace
Virginia “Exile” Lee Smith Inducted into North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
presentation remarks by Lucinda H. MacKethan
Three Women Writers: Breaching Boundaries
to Create New Realities
a review by Joyce Compton Brown
A Place of Oaks and Bells: The Hutchinson Building at
Mills Home, 1946–1948
an essay by D. Allen Carroll
Four New Contributions to Thomas Wolfe Studies
a review by Wiley Cash
In Memoriam
by Wiley Cash
Historian William Stevens Powell Inducted into North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
presentation remarks by Jerry Cashion
High on the Hog
a review by Jerry Leath Mills of Holy Smoke
2008 R. Hunt Parker Award Goes to John Ehle
presentation remarks by Rebecca L. Godwin
2008-2009 Student Staff
Editorial Assistants
Olivia Everett
Elizabeth Howland
Nicole Keech
Deborah Welsh
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Lauren Hildebran
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