Lots of Culture

A week ago, our culture immersion began.





A local group, the Black River Comedy Club gave a production of "Westward, Ho".  The group has been writing and producing a comedy production for many years.  The members of the cast are local residents.  They put their heart and soul into it, but sometimes the laughter comes when your neighbor forgets his parts.  (He probably will be laughing as he looks to the prompter).  The star of the show this year was a boy in elementary school who played the parts of two people by just exchanging hats for each one.  He was told at 7 pm the night of the performance that the other person was ill.  Since he had a part of one of the two people he had been at the practices and knew the parts of both.

Next was a concert brought to the area by a non profit, ORMACO which brings culture and arts to rural areas.  We are good friends with the parents of the Executive Director so try to attend a lot of the concerts.  We never are disappointed. The group this time was Le Vent du Nord from Quebec, Canada.  All singing was in French, but we thoroughly enjoyed it even though we do not know French. You can listen to some of their preforming on YouTube.  One link is:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2kyFmsi8RY

A few days later we attended a lecture at Baldwin Wallace College by historian and author, Stephen Prothero.  His talk was about his most recent book, The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation.       He has been on numerous television and radio programs as well as being a contributor to NY Times. Washington Post and many other papers.  He former book was God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter.   

Last Night we saw the play "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie".  I'll let you look up that on your own. But will say we again enjoyed it.

Tonight is attending a performance of  Beethoven and Rossini by the Akron Symphony Orchestra and tomorrow is see Shakespeare's "As You Like it".