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Start: 2024-07-18T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-18T19:00:00-04:00

We Were Friends - Two Years In: Birthdays

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7/18/24 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm EDT

Website: https://concordmuseum.org

Event Description

Grab your picnic basket and blanket and meet on the Museum lawn for special performances of a selection of episodes of We Were Friends: An Episodic Play Exploring the Friendship of Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Presented by the award-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop and performed on land that was once Emerson's apple orchard, this series of short plays explores the enigmatic and compelling friendship between Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, set in today's world. This is the first of two separate plays. The second will take place in August.

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KEYWORDS concord museum , margaret fuller , ralph waldo emerson , theater

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