Dramatic Readings with Barbara Bates Smith
Posted on | February 20, 2009 | No Comments
Over the past few months I have been developing a performance 
of dramatic readings based on Red Clay, Blood River with a well-known regional actress, Barbara Bates Smith. Noted for her Off-Broadway performance of “Ivy Rowe” from Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies, Barbara currently tours with her adaptations of a number of Lee Smith’s works, as well as her own work (”The C-Word”) and other plays (”Wit”). The themes and characters of Red Clay, Blood River spoke strongly to her, so she has very generously developed these scripts from the book’s narrative. We recently presented these dramatic readings at the Haywood County Public Library, Waynesville, NC, to a packed audience of over 90 people, accompanied by Jeff Sebens, a master luthier from Cana, VA. We are now arranging for other performances.
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William J. Everett
In my teaching career I authored eight books and numerous articles in social ethics and religion. After over thirty years of academic work — in Germany, India, and South Africa as well as in the United States — I wanted to turn my hand to a poetically written novel to probe the issues of ecological and human reconciliation.
When I am not writing, I create furniture for worship settings. For more about my work, go to www.WisdomsTable.net, where you will also find galleries of artwork by my wife Sylvia, whose ancestors were the original inspiration for Red Clay, Blood River. READ MORE...
Red Clay Blood River
Red Clay, Blood River is a story told by Earth about two brothers from Germany and an enslaved South African woman whose lives bind together America’s “Trail of Tears” and South Africa’s simultaneous “Great Trek” of 1838.