When hope is hard to find, voices from our past can inspire our future.
Join us as Ralph Waldo Emerson appears onstage, offering sage advice and optimism, through the magic of reader’s theatre.
In this often funny and touching one-man show, playwright/actor Philip Paradis brings Ralph Waldo Emerson to life with his characteristic wit, wisdom, and self-effacing manner in this dramatic portrayal based on Emerson’s life and writings.
Through the magic of reader’s theatre, you will meet Ralph Waldo Emerson in his home in Concord, Massachusetts, in September of 1871. As you travel back in time to America 150 years ago, you will be introduced to the man Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes called “the Buddha of the West.”
Emerson shares anecdotes of his life and times, his views on reading and writing, nature, religion, science, politics, and his contemporaries Henry David Thoreau, the Alcotts, and Abraham Lincoln; you will leave hopeful, inspired by his wisdom and optimistic philosophy.