Best Bets for Nov. 13-15 | THE BAINBRIDGE BLAB
Published 11:16 am Friday, November 13, 2015
Hello, weekend! We’re excited for you.
Robert Louis Stevenson was a waif of a man, shriveled up by chronic respiratory ailments that had taunted him since childhood. But the author of “Treasure Island” and “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide” also had a gargantuan appetite for adventure; it took him to Switzerland and France, to the American West and across tumultuous seas, to tiny islands populated by reformed cannibals and Samoa, where he would eventually die. Always by his side was his wife, Fanny, an American divorcee who was ten years his senior. Nancy Horan weaves the story of their unlikely union in “Under a Wide and Starry Sky,” her second work of historical fiction, after “Loving Frank.” Catch the author at the Bainbridge Public Library tonight for a stirring talk about the daring Scot and his incredible journey through life. Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave. N. Friday, 7:30 p.m. Free. (206) 842-4162, www.krl.org.
You might think you know the story of Romeo and Juliet, but you definitely don’t know this version. Friar Lawrence is Bill Nye the Science Guy; the Nurse is Juliet’s bodyguard; and Nirvana and Green Day music accompany ‘90s fashions and slang. You be trip pin fool, if you don’t check it out. Bainbridge High School, 9330 NE High School Road. Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m. $12, $8 student and senior.
Something old (Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4), something new (Luminosity), something borrowed (Nielsen’s Third Symphony), something blue (you; if you don’t go to Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of the 2015-2016 season!) The program is “flush with merriment,” beauty and vigor. Get the scoop on the selections at the pre-performance chat with the conductor, 2:15 p.m. on Sunday. Bainbridge Performing Arts, 200 Madison Ave. N. Saturday, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, 3:00 p.m. $19; $16 senior, student, military, teacher; free for youth 18 and under with paying adult. (206) 842-8569, www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org/products/bso1-1516.
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