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| Staunton, VA MoveOn Rally |
I feel like I'm back in Mrs. Netabel Rice's Senior English class. Two workshops today focused first on verse and next on rhetoric. Verse is fairly easy to grasp and to find in Will's plays. It's either prose which uses rhetoric or verse with meter. Our task was to see how actors decide to perform the lines by examining the meter and with regard to stress on words. We're all very familiar with today's political and proselytizing rhetoric. As a playwright, Will used rhetoric to help the audience to understand the character, and used it to provide the actor with cues on how to behave physically or vocally when delivering the lines.
This afternoon our workshop was on tonight's play, The Man of Mode, a restoration comedy.. The teacher, Aubrey, is a former English teacher, and it shows. She's very dramatic, very organized and very good at engaging us all. We got the general plot and character list of the play as well as an overview of the comedic structure.
At 5pm we walked to the Courthouse to participate in a national event organized by MoveOn to protest Trump's firing of Sessions. I have no respect for nor like of Sessions. His over reach into states' rights is the worst of any AG ever. However, I more than my opposition to Sessions is my opposition to Trump's move to begin the first steps toward firing Mueller. Remember the Saturday Night Massacre. There was a group of about 60-80 people there with appropriate signs, the best of which was "lock him up". Although the crowd was not huge, the woman who organized it has vision, determination, and persistence in protecting and maintaining our Democracy. Channel 3 appeared for a quick filming. We had more positive honking from passing cars than I anticipated. One of the participants said it was difficult in the area to oppose Trump. She cries often.
We got word that tonight's performance had been cancelled. We can't remember ever having a theatrical performance cancelled. It's bazaar. Perhaps tomorrow will tell why. Tacos at The Bistro were excellent.
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