Restrictions: Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.
Rights: Federal copyright regulations apply. Please cite materials.
Preferred Citation: [Object identification], RG 14.07: Berea College Theatre Oral History Collection, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Berea, KY.
Finding Aid Revisions: The finding aid was created in November 2015. Collections Archivist. Collection organized by Harry Rice, Sound Archivist. Links to recordings were added in 2018. Finding guide updated April 2019.
Scope and Contents: This collection consists of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with twenty one Berea College faculty and staff, some of whom were also Berea College alumni. (Follow links in box list to hear recordings and read transcripts.) The interviews document the development of the college's theatre activities including both the curricular program and the co-curricular Theatre Laboratory labor program. The time span of the interviewee's involvement with Berea's theatre program range from the 1930s to the then present. The interviews were recorded by Linville Rose during the 1988 fall semester.