James McCaffery

Help Received: Back Talk from Appalachia- America Needs Hillbillies: The Case of The Kentucky Cycle by: Finlay Donesky

James McCaffery

June 5, 2017

So a drive by shooting. It’s fast, brutal, surprising, sadistic, incredibly deadly, shocking, and makes you question yourself and life, and wonder if it even happened. yeah. Sucker punch from the dark part of the room. Absolute knockout. I’d say that Donesky’s definition is  INCREDIBLY accurate. The Play is not only hurtful, but it reopened many problems and beliefs that the people of Appalachia had tried to fix and correct. Not to mention the target audience was not members of Appalachia.  City Folk go to plays. Not the hard working country folk of Appalachia (normally). Thus this play might have persuaded some of the lower IQ members of the city to absolutely go crazy and assume and light the stereotype flames again. Great.  Donesky realized this and while some thing by his title that he wants more dumb country bumpkins running around, they need to realize who the real idiots are for giving up their ability to survive and forcing themselves to depend upon others. Its a matter of looking in the mirror to find the real idiots. Or maybe again its just a matter of returning to Their own guilt in the fact they know they are inept. Shrug.