The Fayette County Connection
The stage play is set in Uniontown, Pennsylvania during the 1950's. RED DOG DIRT features, within the compass of a
few neighborhood blocks, scenes of a homebuilt clubhouse; arguments over sandlot ballgames; first girlfriends;
garage-rooftop, rocket-ship heroics; sassafras tea parties; fearsome bullies, grade-school capers; sycamore-tree
pondering on parents, teachers, religion, dead relatives, what girls might be and how to win them as girlfriends. And
finally the play features the catastrophic demise of childhood and entry into the world of adulthood. The common appeal
of the RED DOG DIRT story holds the attention of audiences ages 6 through 90, and of peoples from every corner of the
globe. Sign up for updated info by email here
The stage play is set in Uniontown, Pennsylvania during the 1950's. RED DOG DIRT features, within the compass of a
few neighborhood blocks, scenes of a homebuilt clubhouse; arguments over sandlot ballgames; first girlfriends;
garage-rooftop, rocket-ship heroics; sassafras tea parties; fearsome bullies, grade-school capers; sycamore-tree
pondering on parents, teachers, religion, dead relatives, what girls might be and how to win them as girlfriends. And
finally the play features the catastrophic demise of childhood and entry into the world of adulthood. The common appeal
of the RED DOG DIRT story holds the attention of audiences ages 6 through 90, and of peoples from every corner of the
globe. Sign up for updated info by email here
| Red Dog lives! Red Dog and other construction materials along Fairchance Road today. Photo © Angela Cheng. |
| Clubhouse is a scene in Red Dog Dirt, 1955. Photo: C. J. Barnes |
| Guts Gillen, club member, receives the ball, 1954. Photo: C. J. Barnes |
| Hike! Some Red Dog Dirt play characters still live in Uniontown. Photos: C. J. Barnes |
| Fayette County bituminous coal. Photo © Angela Cheng |
| Richie "Catechism" Maier, original club member and character in play, 1954. Photo: C. J. Barnes |
| Gallatin Avenue YMCA, Uniontown, is setting for bully scene. Photo © Angela Cheng |
Red Dog Dirt
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