Speaking directly to her audience, Angelyn DeBord creates an intimate performance atmosphere. Oftentimes the audience members are invited to become participants in the show. The pace for all performances is high-energy with moments for reflection.
STUBBORN MEMORIES: For adult
audiences, Enjoying a close proximity to the audience, this original play,
based on the life of a woman growing up in an extended family in an isolated
area of the Smokey Mountains, is a high energy performance, full of lilting
imagery, music, and dancing. In this
play, Nancy Strange, Knoxville musician and vocalist, weaves in music of the
guitar and banjo and sings popular songs, ballads and traditional hymns
indicative of the Appalachian culture in the 1950s.
HOMEMADE TALES a fast-paced performance of traditional
mountain stories: Appropriate for any age, HOMEMADE
TALES, is an energetic, humorous collection of folk stories, laced with
real-life memories and a strong emphasis on Appalachian culture and dialect.
WHATTA
SHOW! Angelyn and Nancy Strange join together in rollicking tandem
story telling and ballad singing, banjo and guitar.
LESSONS ON BECOMING A WOMAN (Folktales for Growing Girls and Other Human Beings) (ages 12- up)
An exhilirating collection of
ancient stories that have settled in the ancient mountains of Appalachia. These stories were used for centuries to
instruct and entertain and tell of women caught up in adventures that will
tickle your funnybone and raise the hair on the back of your neck.