Bread and Puppet Theatre: Great Small Works - We Love Trees
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Description
Notes from Trudi Cohen:
The musicians are Marji Gere and Dan Sedgwick.
Texts:
"The Hidden Life of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben
"Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer
"Urban Forests" by Jill Jonnes
Somerville Public Library’s local historical archives
Direct quotes from Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump
Music:
Waltz No. 3 from "Along the Plaza" by Henry Kimball Hadley (1904)
“Dans l'grand bois” (“In the Forest”) – a traditional Cajun tune
“Tree” from Stevie Wonder’s 1979 album, Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, arr. Dan Sedgwick
Film/Edit: Jerome Lipani
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