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Review
creative routines with brooms promoted one young boy, age 3, to ask his mother if she had ever danced with a broom.
Seven children occasionally romped across the stage, singing, dancing, and — yes — sweeping with brooms also. At the play’s opening, young Jullian Wood, age 3, occupies the “Shrine,” a throne-like prop, and thus provides the play’s most powerful symbol of renewal. During a routine in which the children have been sent to sweep up their rooms by their parents, Britton Wood shares with us his personal philosophy: “I like to make the biggest difference with the least effort.” Jeremy Slack, Ruth Purnell, Jeff Simeon also contribute dance, song, and insight, as do Ashley and Vanessa Dunn whose grandmother Willie Bell Dunn is one of the women to whom the play is dedicated.
The music was eclectic, deeply affecting, and, again, often drawn from the many musicians and artists of our county. Carol Lucking composed the music, with instrumentation by Lorraine Duisit and Tom Espinola, for the production’s theme song, “We Are One Tribe,” written by Rappahannock native Melanie Moffett when she was 16. Rappahannock’s nationally-known group Trapezoid contributed “4 A.M. Waltz.” The late Blanche Kennedy, Marshall’s mother-in-law, was heard reciting a poem she wrote two weeks before her death at 93 called "When I Am in Heaven.”
Also enhancing the production are frequent uses of natural sound effects, especially the sounds of birds which included loons, wood thrushes, redtailed hawks, and wrens, that soften the mood and heighten the connection between the world of human endeavor
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