Woods Tea Company

Woods Tea Company is a musical group that defies categorization. In concert, the group draws on a wide variety of musical experience and expression. They employ as many as a dozen different instruments including banjos, bezoukis and bodhrans, guitars and tin whistles.

The Vermont based group tours the country offering a mixture of lively folk, Celtic music, sea shanties, bluegrass, and dry New England humor. The award winning band has been featured at Lincoln Center, The Chautauqua Institute, and on National Public Radio. Because of their busy schedule, they've been labeled "Vermont's hardest working folk group" by both the Burlington Free Press and Vermont Public Radio.

Woods Tea Company
http://www.woodstea.net/

Actors' Theatre of South Carolina
presents...

MISTER POE'S NIGHTMARES!

Directed by Clarence Felder

Starring...
Lee O. Smith & Chris Weatherhead 

Chill your spine with the ghostly poetic images from one
of Charleston's most famous writers! Edgar Allan Poe lived
as a boy in Charleston with his actress mother, Eliza Poe.
After a highly successful season in Charleston theatre,
her husband, David disappeared.
She then contracted consumption and died within weeks.

This and many other tragedies marked Edgar.
His famous poems are steeped in Southern imagery,
ghostly poems and stories; a powerful combination of love and
horror, especially when his mother comes to haunt him.....

Actors' Theatre of South Carolina
http://www.actorstheatreofsc.org/

National Players

America's longest running classical touring company, has now reached its 60th consecutive season of touring. Currently the touring program of Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, National Players has earned a distinctive place in American theater. Committed to the formation of young theatrical talent and audiences, National Players seeks to celebrate the experience of theatergoing by presenting the world's greatest dramatic literature.

William Golding was born September 19, 1911 in Cornwall, England and graduated from Oxford University where he studied English Literature. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and participated in the invasion at Normandy. Golding wrote the novel during wartime and completed it by the time the first atomic bomb had been detonated. Faced with the real possibility of the end of the world, these experiences infuse the novel with grief. Though his canon includes 18 other publications, his first novel The Lord of the Flies, is widely accepted as his finest work. In 1983, Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

At its heart, The Lord of the Flies is about the struggle between good and evil. The novel approaches this struggle with allegorical statements on man’s instinctual savagery versus his external environment and behaviors acquired in a modern English society. It is surprising how quickly the group of schoolboys revert to their primitive nature once they are free from the constraints of school rules and proper etiquette.

Readers and critics since the 1950’s have interpreted The Lord of the Flies as a dramatization of the entire span of human history while others focus on the religious themes and psychological aspects of the story. A popular interpretation is that the novel is a criticism of a Western approach to politics and imperialism. None of these criticisms are wrong, or more
accurate than another. The core of the story is a palpable reflection of the human condition; the universality of the boys’ struggle on the island resounds today in a modern society faced with heightened circumstances.

National Players
http://www.nationalplayers.org/