Voices Under the Wind Reader's Theatre Announced at Rawlings Museum on Oct 12th

Description: This is a readers’ theatre production with skilled actors taking a number of parts. There’s no charge for this October 12 performance. All are invited and welcome to attend.


Published: 09/25/2024
Byline: Stafford

Voices Under the Wind Reader's Theatre Announced at Rawlings Museum on Oct 12th
 
Scenes from “Voices Under the Wind,” an original play about the history of Bent’s Old Fort, will be revived as a program for the Bent’s Fort Chapter of the SFTA
Saturday, Oct. 12, at 1:00 in the Rawlings Museum in Las Animas. There is no admission charge.
 
First produced by Otero Junior College Theatre in 1983 and again in 1987,  this pageant told the story of Bent’s Old Fort in song and dramatic scenes.  Written by college instructors Ed Stafford and Tim Walsh, it was performed in the plaza at Bent’s Old Fort NHS and was well received by full houses.
 
Also directed by Stafford, scenes were performed by invitation for the national symposium of the Santa Fe Trail Association meeting at Otero Junior College in 1993 and before the Colorado Commission on Higher Education meeting on the campus a decade later.
 
This meeting on Oct. 12, is giving members of the chapter and anyone interested in attending, the opportunity to see what they perhaps missed or view again what they enjoyed 20 to 40 years ago.
 
Earlier in the 21st century, a reader’s theatre was given at OJC directed by RuAnn Keith, Chair of the Arts Department.
 
This October’s Chapter meeting at the Rawlings Museum in Las Animas will again offer an hour of scenes featuring some actors from the original productions, as well as notables of Picketwire Productions In La Junta.  They include Darlene Blackford, Tim Baublitts, Tom Seaba, JR and Laura Thompson, Kevin Lindahl, and Ed and Clara Lee Stafford. 
 
In dramatic scenes and music, the story tells the 13 year history of the Fort, including its commerce, the war with Mexico, Indian and Mexican viewpoints, mountain men, the first white woman at the Fort, William Bent’s family, including the death of Charles Bent.
 
This is a readers’ theatre production with skilled actors taking a number of parts.
 
There’s no charge for this October 12 performance.  All are invited and welcome to attend.
 
Entrance to the Rawlings museum is at the back(east side).  There is an elevator inside the back door that carries those attending to the second floor performance hall.
 
 
The John W. Rawlings Museum is Located at 560 Bent Ave. in Las Animas, Colorado
 


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