The Coatesville Cultural Society's
Summer Theatre
Square Dance & Picnic

Another free presentation by the Coatesville Cultural Society.  Performations were held during the following dates. 

Wednesday July 23
Friday July 25
Wednesday August 6
Friday August 8

all shows at 7pm, Rain or Shine

The talented musicians and actors from the Coastesville Cultural Society performed this original production, which included short skits, dances and old-fashioned poetry recitations based on the prose and poetry of   Paul Laurence Dunbar, the 19th-century African-American writer.

Most of the performances took place outdoors so that everyone could enjoy the warm summer evenings. Of course, the outdoor setting was also appropriate to the drama and mood of many of the skits using Dunbar's original dialect.  The actors, dressed in period garb, evoked a range of settings including the sitting "circles" around slave cabins, old bear and "weasel"  hunting grounds and  shop-lined streets of  small southern towns.  

At the end of each performance, the actors and members of the Cultural Society invited the public to join them in a potluck dinner and to try their hand (and feet!) in a bit of square dancing accompanied by the  Run-of-the-Mill String Band

The performances were supported in part by Phoebe W. Haas Charitable Trust, the  Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and International Institute for Theatre Research