About 170 patrons attended "Piece Work" at Randolph Community College on Tuesday, Oct. 27. The Touring Theatre of North Carolina performed the theater piece based on Barbara Presnell's highly acclaimed collection of poems about North Carolina's dying textile industry.
"Piece Work" celebrates people who work in industry, specifically textiles. Accented by folk and blues, workers tell their stories to audience members and each other as they face unemployment, re-education and other life changes. Even though Presnell's characters are connected to textiles, their voices resonate with the ring of the tobacco farmer, the factory worker, the nurse's aid, the hotel maid, and other Southerners.
Touring Theatre of North Carolina is an educational, professional, nonprofit theater company based in Greensboro, N.C., since 1981. All of its works are original adaptations from literature and historical documents. These works call into focus issues of culture, race, and gender.
For more information on the Cultural Arts series, call 336-633-0244, or visit www.randolph.edu.
