Tag: Visiting Mr Green

Love is all you need

With a smattering of Martin Buber, a dash of Yiddish and a whole lot of “Morrie-isms” that raise the idea of Morrie to an iconic thinker like Confucious or Buddha, it’s a beautiful show, based on a real Morrie written by the real Mitch. But this play boasts something more.

Lessons of letting go

HOW DO YOU make sense of loss? It’s a relentless pit of remorse and unspoken words, of perhaps guilt and ‘should haves’.  It is an uncertain place of not knowing how your absent person would have responded to a given situation. It is in this morass of confused […]

Biases, secrets of a sweet old curmudgeon

IT’S EASY TO get emotionally entwined in the harsh finger-pointing that sees the elderly of a community abandoned. It makes for predictable storytelling and indictments on the callousness of the younger generation. What is more difficult is representing the other side of a story that is about rejection […]