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Title: A treasure revisited.
Review: This is one of the lost treasures of the American Theater. Once one of the most produced plays by high schools and colleges it has lost stature and is only produced occasionally. The reasons for this are a mystery to me.As an actor's exercise it offers performers (particularly young ones) a chance to stretch and discover different cultural types.Based on the ballad "Barbara Allen" the play about a love affair and marriage between a Witchboy and a beautiful young woman is highly theatrical and filled with a mystical and earthy quality. Appalachian characters and traditional mountain songs add to the color and whimsical nature of the story.
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