“Given” by Wendell Berry

Sep 21, 2024 7:00PM—Sep 22, 2024

Location

The Landmark Center Theater, 500 East Jefferson Street, Viroqua, WI

Cost $20 (suggested donation)

Event Contact Gillian Schoemaker | Email

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PERFORMANCE WITH VINCENT ROPPOLO (AAP ASSOCIATE)

Thoreau College and Comet Time Studios Present…

“Given” by Wendell Berry
A stage performance of poetry, drama, music, and movement from the musings of America’s mad farmer

September 20, 2024, at 7 pm
September 21, 2024, at 7 pm
September 22, 2024, at 2 pm
September 22, 2024, at 7 pm

The Landmark Center Theater, 500 East Jefferson Street, Viroqua, WI

Suggested donation $20. Tickets can also be purchased at the door.


Pre-show banquet on September 21, 2024, at 5 pm with Chef Frank Wildingway


Poems and music from the volume Given, featuring “Some Further Words,” and Sonata at Payne’s Hollow, a short verse play, — or rather a ceremony as Mr. Berry refers to it — is a love story performed by the two ghosts. Harlan was a landscape painter and mandolin player. Anna was a fiddler and gardener. They created a home out of sticks and driftwood, stone and flotsam and jetsam from the river. A home where they lived until the end of their lives away from the mainstream of civilization. From the land of the dead, they meet on the River’s edge in the ruins of their former home. The poems are supported by musical interludes and interactions between the actors and musicians.


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