Barter
Theatre (The State Theatre of Virginia) in Abingdon selected two of Vic's
one-acts in Plays From Blair Mountain: Four Comedies
and presented them as
an evening's entertainment with thirty performances from June till August
of 2002. The two plays are "Every One Who Thirsts" and
"The Egg of the World."
John Hardy,
the director, had this to say in the program notes: "The two
one-act plays that make up Tales from Blair Mountain don't attempt to
de-mystify Appalachia but instead they accomplish something I have yet to
see elsewhere: they bring together the myth and reality of
Appalachia. It's not folklore and it's not documentary. Blair
Mountain is something else that doesn't have a name as yet. When a
stereotype is closely examined, we find that there is no stereotype at
all, only individuals reacting to the world around them. Tales from
Blair Mountain is a fine example of this. It doesn't deny the world
that surrounds these people but at the same time it doesn't limit them to
the conventional stereotype. The play and its characters are the
convergence of the myth and the reality of Appalachia."
