Contents
Volume LII Number 4 l Fall 2011 l Southern Theatre – Quarterly Magazine of the Southeastern Theatre Conference
Features
9 Special Section: Connecting with Your Audience Professional and Academic Theatres Share Strategies for Creating New Plays that Resonate with a Community 10 Wrestling a Bear Alabama Shakespeare Festival Fills Theatre, Draws New Audience with Play on Local Icon by Chris Hardin
Departments
12 Honoring a Loss University Creates Play that Helps Community Come to Grips with 1968 Mining Disaster by Tessa Carr
4 400 Words
Theatres May Close, but Theatre Itself Will Survive
14 Helping a Cause College Develops Play about Domestic Violence to Benefit Local Battered Women’s Shelter by Adanma Onyedike Barton
by Steve Willis
6 Outside the Box: Design-Tech Solutions Jack Braces:
Build an Inexpensive, Collapsible Version that Stores Compactly by Kyle Ankiel
32 Words, Words, Words... Review of Adjudicating Theatre Performance: Responding to Competitions and Festivals by Dean C. Slusser reviewed by Michael P. Howley
Cover Rodney Clark portrays Coach Bear Bryant in Alabama Shakespeare’s 2009 production of Bear Country. See story, Page 10. (Photo by Phil Scarsbrook; cover design by Deanna Thompson; Photoshop work by Garland Gooden)
16 Evoking a Region Playwright, Songwriter Draw Record Audiences with Series of Appalachian-Inspired Musicals by Christine Woodworth
2011 Charles M. Getchell Award 21 The Playwright: Eddie Zipperer Eddie Zipperer Credits His Playwriting Prowess to Great Teachers Interview by Steve Burch
25 The Play: NICOLAS THE WORM Act One of the 2011 winner of the Charles M. Getchell Award, given by
SETC to recognize a worthy new play, is published, with Act Two available online.