ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, October 21, 1996 TAG: 9610230012
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 3 EDITION: METRO
Emory & Henry literary festival
EMORY - Kentucky author Gurney Norman will be the featured writer at Emory & Henry College's 1966 Literary Festival on Thursday and Friday. Admission is free.
Author of the novel "Divine Right's Trip" (1971) and the short story collection "Kinfolks" (1977), Norman has written and produced three films for Kentucky Educational Television and worked on others for Appalshop in Whitesburg, Ky.
The festival will open at 11 a.m. Thursday with a showing of Norman's film, "From This Valley."
Danny Miller, associate professor of English at Northern Kentucky University, will speak at 2:30 p.m. on "Kin and Kindness in Norman Gurney's 'Kinfolks'" and Nancy Joyner, professor of English at Western Carolina University, will speak at 3:30 p.m. on "Divine Right's Meta-Trip."
Norman will read from his work at 8 p.m.
Three more of his films will be shown starting at 9 a.m. Friday: "Time on the River," "From This Valley" and "Wilderness Road."
Jack Wright, assistant professor of film studies at Ohio University and founding director of June Appal Records, will speak at 2:30 p.m. on "The Electronic Version of the Prodigal Son."
The final program at 3:30 p.m. will be a public conversation among Norman and Sandra Ballard, associate professor of English at Carson-Newman College, and Pat Beaver, professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University.
Born in Virginia in Grundy, Norman was raised in Hazard, Ky., and now lives in Lexington, Ky., where he is associate professor of English at the University of Kentucky.
The festival is presented by the college's Department of English and the Iron Mountain Review literary magazine.
Further information is available by calling John Lang at 944-6143.
'The Crucible' in Wytheville
WYTHEVILLE - Arthur Miller's award-winning play "The Crucible" will be performed at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the Grayson Hall Commons at Wytheville Community College.
First produced in 1952, the drama focuses on the 1692 Massachusetts witch hunts and offers parallels with the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950s.
Director Janice Scudder said she chose this play because high-school students often study it, it is a classic of the American theater, and "Halloween's coming and we've got witches onstage!"
But pulling it together has not been easy. Its 19 cast members are either working or in school, so it has been a rare rehearsal when everyone is present. "That is, well, a challenge," Scudder said.
The cast includes Darren Alexander, Darla Anderson, Brandon Ayers, Walt Brown, Joe Burnett, Don Byrne, Tricia Cahill, Jessica Graca, Roger Dean Grubb, Kevin Lightle, Donna Manns, Alecia Mikrut, Holly Montgomery, Angie Ryan, John Schott, Linda St. John and Annette Stamper.
Chris Akers is coordinating the 17th century costumes, and Bonnie McCathran is helping with sewing tasks. Martin Scudder is providing lights and building set pieces, with Sarah Davis as backstage coordinator. The Alpha Delta Beta chapter of Phi Theta Kappa at the college is providing box office, usher and concession personnel.
Tickets are $3 for adults and $2 for students.
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