Opera Laurier is back with "Tender Land"! Here is a look into our reading week rehearsals.
**Performances take place March 2 and 3, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. and March 4, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. in the Theatre Auditorium of Wilfrid Laurier’s Waterloo campus.**
Synopsis:
"The isolated world of a rural family turns around the graduation of the elder daughter. Yet, she is unsure of her place in the world. It is invaded by a threat and then an actuality of two outsiders who excite in the girl dreams of a larger life. The boys are accepted into the community as harvesters.
At a party on the eve before graduation, one of them falls in love with the girl. The match is discovered by the grandpa, and the boys are ordered away. The boy and girl plan an elopement at daybreak, but the boy, attacked by fears of responsibility abetted by forebodings of his companion, flees. The girl’s anticipation of fulfilment turns to despair when she finds the boys gone. She is consoled by her family who remind her of graduation and the pattern of her life. But she realizes that the time has come to break that pattern and assert her own being. Though accepting, the mother does not recognize the woman her daughter has become. And as the girl goes to find her own life, the mother turns to her younger daughter knowing that one responsibility has ended and another has begun."
***Tickets to Tender Land
Free for Laurier students and faculty,
$1 for high school and elementary students
$20 for adult
$10 for seniors and non-Laurier university students***
Tickets can be purchased at the door before each performance, or in advance by emailing concerts@wlu.ca or calling 519-884-1970, ext. 4439. Tickets are offered online through ticketscene.ca.
