Goblin Market-Theater Performance October 28 at 7pm
October 28, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Told through haunting musical numbers, narration and prose, Goblin Market tells the story of two devoted sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who return to their childhood nursery after many years’ absence. Here they both discover and invent the world of their adolescence from an adult perspective. Their nursery becomes a woodland glen peopled by bizarre goblins who entice them with luscious fruits and promises of unimagined ecstasies. One of the sisters, Laura, partakes of the forbidden offerings, while her sibling, Lizzie, bargains desperately with the fey creatures to save her from inexorably falling under their spell. Blending music, poetry and entrancing imagery, the play is a dazzling journey through the psyches of the two sisters as they struggle to regain the present and to reconcile the fervent yearnings of their adolescence with the matter-of-fact world that they now inhabit. Their story weaves an enchanted spell that will linger long in the memory. Goblin Market musicians include Cellist Barbara Paschke, violinist Ellen Schwindt, and pianist John Waldie.
Script by Polly Pen and Peggy Harmon with Music by Polly Pen; adapted from the poem by Christina Rossetti and performed by Mary Bastoni and Teresa Dyer.
This is a pay-what-you-can event with a suggested $10 donation
Funded by a grant from the National Endowment the Humanities (NEH) initiative Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) as part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan of 2021 and support from Lakes Region Recovery Center
Facilitated discussion with Lakes Region Recovery Center follows performance
Told through haunting musical numbers, narration and prose, Goblin Market tells the story of two devoted sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who return to their childhood nursery after many years’ absence. Here they both discover and invent the world of their adolescence from an adult perspective. Their nursery becomes a woodland glen peopled by bizarre goblins who entice them with luscious fruits and promises of unimagined ecstasies. One of the sisters, Laura, partakes of the forbidden offerings, while her sibling, Lizzie, bargains desperately with the fey creatures to save her from inexorably falling under their spell. Blending music, poetry and entrancing imagery, the play is a dazzling journey through the psyches of the two sisters as they struggle to regain the present and to reconcile the fervent yearnings of their adolescence with the matter-of-fact world that they now inhabit. Their story weaves an enchanted spell that will linger long in the memory. Goblin Market musicians include Cellist Barbara Paschke, violinist Ellen Schwindt, and pianist John Waldie.
Script by Polly Pen and Peggy Harmon with Music by Polly Pen; adapted from the poem by Christina Rossetti and performed by Mary Bastoni and Teresa Dyer.
This is a pay-what-you-can event with a suggested $10 donation
Funded by a grant from the National Endowment the Humanities (NEH) initiative Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) as part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan of 2021 and support from Lakes Region Recovery Center
Facilitated discussion with Lakes Region Recovery Center follows performance
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