Description
In 1934, a group of Ashington miners hired a professor to teach an art appreciation evening class. Rapidly abandoning theory in favor of practice, the pitmen began to paint. Within a few years, the most avant-garde artists became their friends and their work was acquired by prestigious collections; but every day they worked, as before, down the mine.
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The action is set in the miners’ dark, empty meeting room, which by the end of the evening is filled with reproductions of the real-life Ashington Group’s paintings. Three onstage screens display projections of individual paintings as the characters critique each other’s ...
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