Robert Gard s timeless book is a moving account of one man s struggle to bring his dream of community-building through creative theater to citizens around the country. He traveled across America from New York s Finger Lakes to the prairies of Alberta, Canada, to the backwoods of northern Wisconsin discovering and nurturing the folklore, legends, history, and drama of the region. He talked to ballad singers, painters, the tellers of tall tales, and farm women, whose poetry and painting reflected the elemental violence of nature and quiet joys of neighborliness. Grassroots Theater reminds us that an individual s creative vision transcends technology, current events, and changing demographics.
This reprint of Grassroots Theater was generously funded by the Robert E. Gard Wisconsin Idea Foundation, an affiliate of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.
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- ISBN10 0313203997
- ISBN13 9780313203992
- Publish Date October 1978
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 July 1994
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Greenwood Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 263
- Language English