A Good Day

DiDi and I spent a lovely Sunday afternoon having lunch and going to a play in Watertown at the New Rep theater

The theater had a lot of art on display.  I liked this "dripping paint" in the lobby.

The play was about a German professor who slowly gets pulled into the Nazi party…at first he rationalizes what is going on around him.  He considers himself a good person, he has Jewish friends….but by the end of the play he's putting on the Nazi uniform and you see how each little rationalization was a step toward acceptance.  There was a Q&A afterwards that we stayed for and of course there was plenty of allusion to today's political climate.  

We considered ourselves quite intellectual until one of the actors explained how the mother in the play represented Germany after WWI and the wife represented the current day stagnant Germany etc.  Di and I looked at each other….maybe we weren't quite intellectual enough. Ok, so maybe we didn't get every nuance and symbol but it was really Good.