A paeon to parenting
Special to The Ellsworth American
BLUE HILL I just can’t say enough about the effort, talent and enthusiasm with which the New Surry Theatre has put into keeping the shows going on during this pandemic. Not only have they found theatrical fare well-suited for Zoom presentations, they have found plays that are relevant politically and socially. Their latest production, “Motherhood Out Loud,” also is seasonally in tune with performances over Mother’s Day weekend.
Written by a collection of American writers, this is a series of short monologues in which a variety of moms, and the occasional dad, talk about the experience of parenting from the birth of their babies, to exhausting, post-birth sleep deprivation, the exasperating terrible twos, troublesome teens, scary young man and womanhood and so forth. The scenes were performed by 23 actors in several different states, who amazingly pulled it off with hardly a glitch during Saturday night’s show, pa
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New Surryâs âRed Hot Patriotâ play sizzles
Special to The Ellsworth American
BLUE HILL â There have been more than a few times in the past four or five years when I have missed Molly Ivinsâ Texas brand of sharp-shooting humor, aimed at American politics, politicians and culture.
Oh, what on earth would this prolific newspaper columnist, author and commentator, who died far too soon in 2007, have had to say about Donald Trumpâs ascendence and fall, the politics of pandemic or the Black Lives Matter movement? We will never know, but itâs a pretty sure thing she would have made us laugh through our tears.