GREENVILLE — Those who missed the recent Birchwood Center fundraiser production of “The Prince of Dark Corners” have another chance to see the story of Lewis Redmond — the Upstate’s outlaw Robin Hood— told onstage next month.

Greenville’s Upcountry History Museum will present the play on 7 p.m. Friday June 5 and 3:30 p.m. Saturday June 6.

Tickets are $15 for Upcountry History Museum members and $20 for non-members.

Reservations are encouraged, as seating is limited, with only 65 seats available for each performance.

A light reception will be held before the Friday night performance and after the Saturday performance.

Written by Gary Neal Carden, the play tells the story of Lewis Redmond, the Upstate’s most notorious outlaw and bootlegger.

Actor Milton Huggins, who originated the role, returns as Lewis Redmond, and takes the audience through the outlaw’s life, telling the story of the young man’s fascination with the Army — Redmond was known as Major all his life despite never serving in the military and his decision to become a bootlegger to support his family.

Whenever the heat was on, when the hills crawled with federal agents looking out for Redmond, the outlaw and his band would retreat to the Dark Corners, an area where the legal jurisdiction was murky at best, and hide out until the heat was off.

While the feds were out to get him, locals viewed Redmond in a more favorable light.

The Greenville Daily News, during one of Redmond’s trials, urged people to “forget his faults in admiration of his undaunted courage and unmistakable dash,” according to an article published in The New York Times in 1881.

That same Times article states, “Disgusting as it may appear to most sensible people, it is a fact that Redmond is at this time the most popular man in South Carolina.”

Upcountry History Museum Curator Anne Blythe said mountain people responded to Lewis Redmond so strongly because he represented their point of view.

“Mountain people felt they were being repressed by the government, they felt they were being overtaxed,” Blythe said. “That point in history was such an emotional time in our history.”

The play is being performed as part of the museum’s “Eyes to the Hills: Traveler’s Rest to the Dark Corner” exhibit, which focuses on mountain life.

Museum staff realized the need for the exhibit, which opened earlier this month, after devoting the entire month of August to mountain life and culture, and seeing the great response.

“People know about the history of textiles, the regional history of Greenville, but they didn’t know about the hidden culture of the Scots-Irish,” Blythe said. “Our response to that was, let’s give people a regional exhibit that focuses on what they want to hear about.”

The exhibit focuses on mountain life from the very earliest eras up through the Great Depression.

“It focuses on early settlement, men’s work, women’s work, weddings, wars, including Indian Wars,” Blythe said.

Blythe believes people today respond so strongly to mountain folk like Lewis Redmond because they’re so different from the “grayness and sameness of today.”

“There is color and music and laughter in these people,” Blythe said.

To purchase tickets, call the Upcountry History Museum at 864-467-3100. Tickets are not available online.