Book Woman

Sunday, February 22nd, 11am at Barter's Smith Theatre

The year is 1935 and the citizens of Reinhardt, a small hamlet in eastern Kentucky, find themselves firmly in the grip of the Great Depression. Iris Prue and her family are especially hard hit and are in danger of losing the family farm. Then the WPA announces the formation of the Pack Horse Library, an initiative to hire area woman to deliver books to remote locations on horseback. Iris believes she’s found a way to save her family, but will have to overcome many obstacles, including the toughest – her father.

Written by Catherine Bush and Dax Dupuy

Catherine Bush is Barter Theatre’s playwright-in-residence. Her plays produced at Barter include: The Other Side of the Mountain, The Quiltmaker, Comin’ Up A Storm, Wooden Snowflakes, Tradin’ Paint, Where Trouble Sleeps, The Road to Appomattox, Walking Across Egypt, I’ll Never Be Hungry Again (book & lyrics), The Controversial Rescue of Fatty the Pig, The Three Musketeers, Winter Wheat (book & lyrics), Ghost, Ghost, Come Out Tonight, Great Expectations, Kentucky Spring, and It’s A Wonderful Live. Catherine has also written over twenty-five plays for the Barter Players, whose work serves the younger members of Barter’s audience. She is a proud member of Dramatists Guild.

http://www.catherinebushplays.com/

Dax Dupuy (she/her) is an Asheville based songwriter. She has written a total of twelve musicals, many of which premiered at the Barter Theatre (Kentucky Spring, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas, Frosty, Jingle All the Way, Old Turtle and the Broken Truth, Clementine: The Musical, Alice in Wonderland). She has also composed countless incidental scores for plays. She would list them if she could remember them all.  Dax was recently awarded an Artist Support Grant from the Asheville Arts Council, which she is using to develop her musical Evangeline.