Monadnock Waldorf School Faculty to Present The Shepherd’s Play

The faculty of Monadnock Waldorf School will present The Shepherd’s Play on Sunday, December 18 at 3:30 pm in the Assembly Room at the elementary school at 98 S. Lincoln St. This performance is free and welcome to all.
The Shepherd’s Play is part of a three-play cycle including The Paradise Play and The King’s Play performed village style by the people living on the island of Oberufer on the Danube River in Austria/Hungary. Because the island was isolated, the plays changed very little from their beginnings in the sixteenth century. Parts were handed down in families through the oral tradition.
Karl Julius Schoer, a German folklorist and colleague of Rudolf Steiner, saw the plays and was charmed by them and wished to preserve this cultural inheritance. The plays were performed in the early Waldorf schools and in the Camphill Communities. Now the plays are performed in Waldorf schools all over the world.
The Shepherd’s Play tells the nativity story from the point of view of three bumbling but faithful shepherds. The play includes themes of reverence, generosity, and new possibilities, with a little humor thrown in give it a universal message. The play is appropriate for all ages.