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Sophomores Perform JPII’s “The Jeweller’s Shop”
Underclassmen at 91, New England, welcomed lovers of the performing arts to Olivia Music Hall this weekend for an intimate performance of “The Jeweller’s Shop,” written by Pope St. John Paul II.
“The Jeweller’s Shop” is a Polish rhapsody, a style of play that centers around the interior monologues of a select number of characters, rather than on direct interactions and scenes. The aim of the play is not so much to create a spectacle as it is to encourage people to look at themselves and the lives they lead. “Try to absorb and apply this to your own personal experience and life,” encouraged David Johnson (’29), who played Adam, as he introduced the play. “The more work you put in, the more you will take away.”
Students and faculty families had the opportunity to sit back and relax as underclassmen dramatically played out the scenes. Elya Schumann (’29) and Lucia Johnson (’29) directed the play and also performed in it, alongside co-stars and fellow sophomores Grace Jarvis, Eli Rohr, David Johnson, Levi Smail, Nate Brinck-Lund, and Ryan Veasman, plus an underclassman chorus.
“The Jeweller’s Shop” is a reflection on marriage that follows the lives of a happy, holy, newly married couple and a couple who has fallen away from love and is miserable. After hearing their stories, the scene transitions, and the play follows the lives of the children of these respective couples, who shoulder the burdens or advantages of their parents’ marriages and bring them into their own. All the characters visit and are affected by an enigmatic jeweler and the shop he runs, providing a unity to the story’s three vignettes.
After the play came to an end, audience members discussed the deep messages within the story and the dramatic skill of the actors. Although reading works of philosophy, theology, mathematics, and more is central to the College’s intellectual formation, literature and poetry also play an important role in the wonder cultivated through the curriculum. Looking back, Ryan Veasman thoughtfully highlighted this role, remarking, “I think that poetry is capable of breaking the cynic heart open to beauty.”
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