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White Lightning by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder ASF 2016 Study Materials for White Lightning by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder Director Geoffrey Sherman Study Materials written by Susan Willis Set Design James Wolk ASF Dramaturg Costume Design Pamela Scofield [email protected] Lighting Design Travis MaCale Contact ASF: 1.800.841-4273, www.asf.net ASF/ 1 White Lightning by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder Welcome to the Premiere of White Lightning Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder's latest Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Southern Writers' Project premiere, White Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR Characters Lightning, is a tale of grass roots dreams, (Crown, 2006) conveys the factual basis Avery McAllister, 20, a a guy's first fast car and his first true love, a behind this fictional drama. Characters in young World War II young woman's determination to succeed, the play discuss several of the actual figures veteran and how to turn nothing into something in early racing, as anyone interested in fast Hank Taylor, a north by hook, crook, love, and speed on the cars and a chance to win big money in the Georgia moonshiner and South's highways and race tracks. The title 1930s and 1940s would. businessman fuses these two worlds of moonshine and The cars are the context for the play's Chester Pike, the revenuer automotive speed. focus on a person's desire to become Mutt, a skilled mechanic The play looks at Southern moonshining somebody, to chart his or her own course Dixie James, 19, an aspiring and bootlegging as a major backwoods and not default into hopelessness—and young mill worker income source and at the kind of daredevil not let the tentacles of the world or others' driver who ran the booze and began to dreams ensnare him. Clarifying one's race competetively in the years before purpose and finding one's true love in terms Setting: north Georgia, NASCAR got organized, years when dirt of another person or in work are challenges Atlanta, and Southern dirt tracks and stock cars found an audience where self meets world, which can promise, racetracks of thousands—which has now become an tempt, entrap, or liberate. Avery and Dixie's Time: 1947-1948 audience of millions. Writer Neal Thompson, abilities and determination must find a way has delved into the unrecorded early days to survive as they start their young adult of dirt tracks before NASCAR, and his book, lives seeking their "freedom" from being outliers with no future in their society. The Story Young war veteran Avery McAllister asks a local moonshiner and businessman, Hank Taylor, to hire him as a bootlegger. Because Avery can drive fast and is smart, he's hired to drive and also to Cover picture: Number 7, work at Hank's gas station as "Lightning" Lloyd Seay, one of cover. There his car is modified pre-NASCAR's great racing for speed and storage space champions, took the turns by Mutt, the mechanic, and he on two wheels at full throttle meets Dixie, a young mill worker in 1948 on his way to victory and aspiring accountant. at Daytona. Weeks later he was dead, shot by a cousin Hank's "business partner," in a moonshine dispute in his the local revenuer Chester Pike, hometown, Dawsonville, GA. is a stock car racing fan who Dawsonville, Georgia—Family experience admires Avery's driving skills and convinces tells Avery and Dixie that this town, the Hank to back him in races. Avery wins, but local mills, and grief are their destiny. that feeds Hank's desire for a one-man Yet in the '30s and '40s Dawsonville empire. When Avery's dreams of winning was famous for its bootlegging stock car and marrying seem to collapse, he must racers, because the only way out was a gut-check and decide whether to fight for fast automobile. the life and woman he wants. ASF/ 2 White Lightning by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder Meet the Author: Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder Elyzabeth Wilder grew up in Wilder's Other Alabama—living on a houseboat. Her ASF Plays first taste of professional theatre was on ASF's Festival Stage in the 1991 In Gee's Peter Pan playing one of the Lost Boys. Bend, an abused Later she participated in the first Young wife finds her Playwrights' Workshop of ASF's Southern self-respect by Writers' Project (SWP), and went on to earn joining the civil rights march an M.F.A. from the Department of Dramatic in Selma and Writing at New York University. drinking from Her 2006 SWP workshop of Gee's a whites' only Bend, a play about the isolated Alabama water fountain. community of African-American quilters, (Roslyn Ruff, was in ASF's 2006-2007 season and has ASF 2007) subsequently been performed across the country. Gee's Bend also won Wilder the American Theatre Critics' Osborn Award In The for Emerging Playwrights. As ASF's Furniture of Home, a woman Playwright-in-Residence, she led writing tries to preserve workshops across the state. Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder her home, ASF then commissioned two more condemned as plays, The Furniture of Home (2009) and uninhabitable ASF Premieres of The Flagmaker of Market Street (2011). The after Hurricane Wilder Plays current play is her latest ASF commission. Katrina, and to deal with crises In November 2004, her play, Fresh Gee's Bend, 2007 from her daughter The Furniture of Home, 2009 Kills, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre and a deceptive The Flagmaker of Market in London. Her other plays include The developer/friend. Street, 2011 First Day of Hunting Season, The Spirit (Greta Lambert White Lightning, 2016 of Ecstasy, and Provenance. The Bone & Anne Letscher, Orchard was commissioned by The Denver ASF 2009) Center. Check out Wilder discussing Her awards include a number In The her writing process on of prestigious fellowships, including a Flagmaker of YouTube @: MacDowell Fellowship. Recently she has Market Street, https://www.youtube.com/ served three years as the Tennessee the dry goods watch?v=9XnrEVp1c-E Williams Playwright-in-Residence at The store owner, who University of the South at Sewanee. is a secret Union loyalist, and his Themes in Wilder's ASF Plays • quest for self-realization in a new slave find moment of larger change themselves • psychological or physical commissioned abuse by authority figure to sew the first (husband, friend, master) Confederate flag • moving beyond the given/the as the South past/what is secedes from • personally defining moments the Union. (Nikki (the water fountain, the blue E. Walker, ASF chair, the flag's stars made 2011) from her wedding dress) ASF/ 3 White Lightning by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder The Background of the Action: Life in the 1930s and 1940s The characters' lives have been shaped 1934-1938: Great Depression eases by Prohibition, the Great Depression— • Lower unemployment, fewer bank during which Avery and Dixie were children failures and the other adults were trying to begin • Drought-striken their adult lives—and by World War II. Midwestern Selective Time Lime: Background for farmers Play move west 1919-20: Prohibition legalized as 18th • Germany Amendment to Constitution ratified, annexes Austria outlawing manufacture, transport, or • Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals at sale of alcoholic beverages. Many Berlin Olympics police participated in bootlegging (in • New: laundromats, Golden Gate Chicago the police chief said the rate Bridge, miniature golf, last public was 60%). Prohibition is repealed in hanging 1933. 1939: War and rising economy John Held's cartoon of a flapper • World War II begins in Europe doing the Charleston—quintessence 1919-1929: The Roaring Twenties of the Roaring '20s • Life expectancy is 54 years; • U.S. economy surges due to war divorce rate 13%. • Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz • Radio gains popularity. • New: helicopter, fad of swallowing • Car sales boom; 50% of cars sold live goldfish are Fords. 1941-1945: World War II for America • Work day cut from 12 to 8 hours. • First peacetime draft in 1940 • New: Miss America pageant, • War declared Dec. 8, 1941 after Wheaties, Time magazine, traffic Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor lights, airmail, Baby Ruth candy, • After early defeats in Pacific, U.S, radio commercials, Yankee stadium, forces begin to electric shavers, films with sound, win and along Cartoon of an big city speakeasy Academy Awards, solo transatlantic with allies during Prohibition— flight, Mickey Mouse, the charleston gain ground alcohol readily available 1929: Stock Market crash in October in Europe. leads to severe economic downturn D-Day; 1930-1933: Depth of Great Depression invasion at • Many banks close; 56% of blacks Normandy, and 40% of whites are unemployed. June 6, 1944. Germans Wages drop to 60% of 1929 wages. introduce V-1 & V-2 • Roosevelt's "New Deal" creates jobs rocket bombs; Japanese and changes national monetary begin kamikaze attacks. system Napalm-bombing of The 1929 Stock • 5-day, 40-hour work week common Tokyo. War in Europe Market • FBI created due to rising gangster ends May 8, 1945. After Crash— activity (a result of Prohibition) dropping two atomic chart of • Dust Bowl in Midwest begins bombs on Japan, war with Japan ends the value of one • Hitler elected chancellor in Germany August 15, 1945. share of • Cigarette smoking rises • Rationing of rubber, sugar, gasoline, GE stock • New: Empire State Building, "Star shoes, canned goods, meat, cheese, from 1920- Spangled Banner" named national and fat in U.S. during war 1930 anthem • Nuremburg war trials begin • Polio epidemic • New: M&Ms, the lindy hop dance ASF/ 4 White Lightning by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder Character & Action in White Lightning: Avery McAllister in Act 1 Avery McAllister at the start: Thinking about Avery: • 20 years old • Avery's early statements are often • his father died when he was young reaction as much as action.
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