A Play In One Act  (based on a true story)

Dramatis Personae

Mother: A frenetic, distracted editor/columnist for a small local newsweekly. Obsessed with politics, culture, religion, and other esoteric abstractions. 40-something, but fancies herself much younger.

Daughter: A bright, energetic 4^th grader with a great smile. Nine going on 35.

Scene

Mother sits at her desk in the breakfast nook, enthralled by something she’s reading on her computer screen. As usual. Daughter is on the couch, watching a poorly-written sitcom with a ubiquitous laugh track on the Disney Channel. As usual. It’s almost 5:30 pm.

Beaufort was fortunate to have national known author, James Howard Kunstler, in town to speak recently.  If you missed him, you owe it to yourself to spend some time looking over his writings and messages.  Jim has been speaking and writing about the American condition since the early 90s with his book, The Geography of Nowhere, talking about the placeless building of the suburban condition and everyday American lives.  His later book, The Long Emergency, published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 2005, is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change, and other "converging catastrophes of the 21st Century.”  This work correctly anticipated the meltdown and great recession, of which we are are still in the midst.

Once again, Edward Arron has arranged a varied program with works by both Clara and Robert Schumann as well as Beethoven, Ives and Copland for the March 27 concert. He is also introducing voice to the evening’s instruments with the debut of baritone Randall Scarlata.  The concert will include Beethoven folk songs and a medley of American songs from the last century.  The final piece of the evening will be the intimate and other-worldly d minor piano trio by Robert Schumann.

Back by popular demand, the Duke Symphony Orchestra is coming to town Saturday, March 26 to perform a benefit concert for Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s Keyserling Cancer Center and Healing Arts Program.

It’s the eighth year the North Carolina university ensemble has made the springtime trip to the Lowcountry.