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Tracks and Feast like Medieval Royalty
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Madrigal Feast--A Holiday Dinner Theater
Once again, with the arrival of the Christmas Season, the Skamania Performing Arts Foundation (SPAF) takes us back in time to the courts and intrigues of medieval times with their Madrigal Feast at Skamania Lodge. Unlike past years, this court will be held for only one night on December 10th beginning at 5 pm.
This season, Lynn Thomas, the SPAF Director, loosely adapted Dickens’ classic A Christmas Tale to reflect the trials and tribulations of the Lord of the Manor during a Medieval Christmas. His cheap and mean proclivities return in the form of ghosts, a hunchback, a mother–in-law and other assorted characters, some from Dickens and some merely figments of his imagination. Throughout all, a 20-voice Madrigal Choir, a Celtic harpist, a five piece renaissance musical consort and a band of orphan singers provide harmonic musical accompaniment to the trials brought about by the season. And there is the ever-present Jester, juggling, bantering and wondering out loud, “Why are you not eating your vegetables?” It is a very loose adaptation, with both humor and depth.
While the Lord undergoes his tribulations, the Guests of the Manor are treated to a sumptuous five-course Feast prepared by the Skamania Lodge Chefs. With this work of culinary art, the jesters, the ghosts, assemblage of the Court and the comeuppance of the Lord make the evening a one of a kind affair. There will be intrigue. Courtships played out and lovers gained. Lovers lost. The Lord will see his past and his future. And there will be music. Lots of music. And food. It is a Feast. Lots of food.
‘Tis the season for feast and music. This year enjoy SPAF’s Madrigal Feast at Skamania Lodge.
For more information:
Lynn Thomas,
lynn@skamaniaarts.org
509-427-7047
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