“My name is Tyson Forbes,” he says upon our introduction, “I am the great, great, great grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson.” Tyson Forbes at The Old Manse in Concord. Turns out, he’s actually a descendant of Emerson himself. I had a chance to see the show on a sunny, hot afternoon, and I spoke with the play's creator, who also plays Emerson.
The ambitious production, aptly titled " Nature," has been unfolding there this week. Now, a walking play is asking modern audiences to do the same - or at least ponder their responsibility to the planet - as they ramble along with the two transcendentalists at The Old Manse in Concord. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau wrestled mightily with that question while wandering the Massachusetts woods in the mid-1800s. “Once they get here we just can take them off into this dream.” (Courtesy Winslow Townson/The Trustees of Reservations) This article is more than 5 years old. “It's a new experience for most,” Tyson Forbes - the actor who plays Ralph Waldo Emerson in the walking play - explained.
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