The ACT 2 Theatre Company and the Altered Productions Institute Theatre Department are collaborating on a historically based play that opens April 30 at the ACT 2 Theatre space at 318 West Main Street in Clarksburg.
by Rachel Bublitz
Tickets at the door: $10.00
Open seating.
Before we had Bookmobiles
Trails could be treacherous.
THE BOOK WOMEN by Rachel Bublitz tells the story of four young women on horseback as they deliver books and magazines to the remote mountain folk in Breathitt County, Kentucky. The Pack Horse Library Project operated from 1935 through 1943 and was part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. Just like the US Postal carriers, these women delivered books through all kinds of weather. They also read to patrons who couldn’t, and sometimes even gave reading lessons to patrons as they traveled their routes.
Multi-generational project
The cast of THE BOOK WOMEN includes adult actors from ACT 2 Theatre Company and youth actors of Actors Producing Imagination at Altered Productions Institute (“API API” for short — pronounced like “happy happy”).