Barter’s Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights SLAPS. Full houses for every reading, smart and gracious and gifted acting ensembles, engaged and engaging talkbacks, and FOOD TRUCKS in a really charming small Virginia downtown. The icing on the cake of a beautiful, funny reading that showed me things about my play was a real-life female coal miner in the audience who spoke in the talkback of the way miners take care of each other. What an experience.
Directed by Nick Piper • Featuring from left: Libby Zabit, Mary Lucy Bivens, Hannah Ingram, Michael Poisson, and the inimitable Tricia Matthews
Daryl Lisa Fazio 