Dramatists Guild playwright Phil Paradis, as Ralph Waldo Emerson, entertains in his home in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1871. With his characteristic wit, wisdom, and self-effacing manner, Emerson charms guests with anecdotes of contemporaries Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, and Abraham Lincoln, and shares his views on reading and writing, nature, religion, politics, and science. In this witty and touching monologue, you will be introduced to the man Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes called “the Buddha of the West.” As you travel back in time to America 150 years ago, you will gain new perspectives of America then and now, and leave hopeful, inspired by Emerson’s sage advice and optimism.
Philip Paradis is an award-winning playwright and poet best known for Soldier’s Christmas, a play with song about The Christmas Truce of World War I; Footprints of the Polar Bear & Other Exo-Centric Plays, about climate change/environmental degradation; and Evening with Stephen Crane, among others. His plays have appeared from coast to coast; his awards include a Kentucky New Play Series Award, Cincinnati Directors Competition Grand Prize for Footprints of the Polar Bear, and American Academy of Poets Prize. Along with published plays, he’s published three poetry books and over 200 poems. Dr. Paradis taught literature and writing at Northern Kentucky University, Western Carolina University, Iowa State University and Oklahoma State University. A resident playwright of American Theatre of Actors, he is a member of the Emerson Society and a lifetime member of the Dramatists Guild. For more, see www.philparadis.com.
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