Upcoming Events
ShPIeL-Performing Identity | Mother Courage and Her Children
Saturday, 7:30pm - 10:00pm
ShPIeL-Performing Identity presents Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
One of the greatest plays of the 20th Century,
Mother Courage’s relevance to today could not be more apparent and poignant. Through original music in the style of cabaret, klezmer and bluegrass by Louisville’s own Gregory and Abigail Maupin, outrageous comedy, meditative moments, and outright protest — Brecht’s play lyrically uses the historical events of the Thirty Years War in Europe in the 1600s, to question the meaning of continued wars, as well as the hatreds they stoke towards those stereotyped as ‘the outsider’ in society.
Brecht wrote
Mother Courage and Her Children as an imminent warning in the 1930s, as he went into exile due to Germany’s racist policies, with his Jewish wife Helene Weigel, who later played the iconic role of Mother Courage. But just as the play asks how Mother Courage the outsider can survive — with the rise of supremacism, racism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia - it ultimately asks, “how can we all survive?”
Tickets can be purchased here:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4492137
Tickets for remaining performances are:
General Admission $24
Seniors $22
Students $18
Groups of 10 or more, contact Rhonda Reskin at 502-558-7881 or rlbreskin@gmail.com
ShPIeL-Performing Identity | Mother Courage and Her Children
Sunday, 4:30pm - 7:00pm
ShPIeL-Performing Identity presents Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
One of the greatest plays of the 20th Century,
Mother Courage’s relevance to today could not be more apparent and poignant. Through original music in the style of cabaret, klezmer and bluegrass by Louisville’s own Gregory and Abigail Maupin, outrageous comedy, meditative moments, and outright protest — Brecht’s play lyrically uses the historical events of the Thirty Years War in Europe in the 1600s, to question the meaning of continued wars, as well as the hatreds they stoke towards those stereotyped as ‘the outsider’ in society.
Brecht wrote
Mother Courage and Her Children as an imminent warning in the 1930s, as he went into exile due to Germany’s racist policies, with his Jewish wife Helene Weigel, who later played the iconic role of Mother Courage. But just as the play asks how Mother Courage the outsider can survive — with the rise of supremacism, racism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia - it ultimately asks, “how can we all survive?”
Tickets can be purchased here:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4492137
Tickets for remaining performances are:
General Admission $24
Seniors $22
Students $18
Groups of 10 or more, contact Rhonda Reskin at 502-558-7881 or rlbreskin@gmail.com
Emilie Strong Smith Chamber Music Series
Sunday, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Musicke's Cordes: "The Violin in England"
Music from 17th-century England by Locke, Purcell & Others
Musicke's Cordes is based in Providence, Rhode Island, and is a collaboration between baroque violinist Sam Breene and lutenist Jeffrey Noonan.
Locust Grove’s Emilie Strong Smith Chamber Music Series offers concertgoers a unique opportunity. Patrons delight in music that the Clarks and Croghans would have heard in the room where they most likely would have enjoyed it — the second-floor Great Parlor of the historic house.
Refreshments at 5:00 p.m.; concert in Locust Grove’s Great Parlor begins at 5:30 p.m. Individual concerts are $20 each. Pre-paid reservations are required--please call (502) 897-9845.
