Catawba College - Death and the Ploughman

Catawba College Theatre Arts created an original production of "Death and the Ploughman" and set it in Appalachia during the Depression as a way to make a 15th century poem more accessible to contemporary audience-goers. The production runs March 27-31 in Florence Busby Corriher Theatre on campus. Written in the 15th century by the Bohemian humanist and writer Johannes Von Saaz, "Death and the Ploughman" is a 34-stanza tragic dialogue between Death and a recently widowed farmer. In Saaz' original, Death and the Ploughman alternate verses in submitting their arguments and refuting each other. It was both medieval and Renaissance in style and questioned the mysticism of the medieval period. Translated into English by Michael West, it has been adapted for the stage by Catawba Theatre Arts Professor and director of the production, David Pulliam, and the production's cast. Now, it is a dramatized, adversarial duel where the farmer's defense of mankind is a strong as Death's ruthless prosecution of his own cause.

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Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
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