This play says a lot to my feelings, to my pride. And you must feel it even more. I was halfway through the show before I had occasion to reflect that there were Black and White players on stage, and no mention made of it in the script, that is, in the conversation of the players. The answer became obvious. Maryat Lee, Playwright and Director, a southern white woman, had dug theater out of these mountains.
People come from all over the country looking for a better life here in our mountains.
The performances by EcoTheater. Better than anything on Broadway. Out of these efforts has come the clear recognition that expansion and support of the network depends on dissemination of EcoTheater's standards, patterns, and methods. An Advisory Council of playwright-directors, the people who are the core of EcoTheater, was formed in order to provide continuity in the training process, and to maintain training guidelines and teach and evaluate new groups. Maryat Lee died in September l989, but her grassroots American theater continued.