Decade at A Glance March 7, 2010

'Decade at a Glance,' a blend of theatrical documentary, movement-theater and folk musical is inspired by the 1930s Dustbowl photographs of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. It is an epic story of a few families in the Dustbowl, circa 1936, who are uprooted from their farmland by drought, dust storms and mortgage foreclosure. Making the treacherous journey out west as migrant workers, these ordinary hard working people - some with hopes dashed, and dreams deferred or dissolved - ultimately join the union marches. Unfolding like a series of living photographs, the story, told from the point of view of a Dustbowl survivor, is related through songs, movement, and interviews preserved from the 1930s.