Ahead of In Some Dark Valley, I caught up with Robert to talk about the themes at the heart of the production, the creative journey behind it, and what audiences can look forward to when the lights go up. What drew you initially to create a solo performance based on a circuit preacher in post-Civil War Appalachia? The original impulse was in the music: field recordings from the mid-20th century of white and black Southerners singing and playing their instruments in churches,