About us
This group is being setup to offer a variety of activities that would interest people over fifty. These activities can include dining out options, trivia nights, movies, theater, walks/hikes, bowling and many other events. We are always open to all ideas.
Our No-Show Policy is after 2 No Shows you will be removed from the group permanently. We request a 24 hour notice for cancellations before an event. or this will be considered a no-show. We understand that emergencies, changes in job schedules, health, etc. happen so let us know.
We are requiring that our meetup members do not use our meetup to step up additional gatherings at our events. If you would like to setup events in our meetup group, please speak to one of us about becoming an event organizer.
Upcoming events
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- $40.50
TWELFTH NIGHT
The Mass Arts Center, 888 South Main Street, Mansfield, MA, USTickets are $40.50 ( $38.00 + $2.50 handling fee). This theater is small so please get the money to me quickly.
Please payment to my PayPal account (Friend's and Family option), dbflorio@comcast.net, or to my Venmo account, @Debra-Florio-1. If you are using Venmo, do not use "Turn on for purchases". This charges me a fee.
These tickets just went on sale and they are selling fast. Please pay when you sign up. I want to buy the tickets in the next week. Thank you.
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a brilliant exploration of the masks we wear and the people we choose to love. The story begins with a literal and metaphorical upheaval: a shipwreck that strands the resourceful Viola on a foreign shore. Believing her twin brother lost to the sea, she adopts a male disguise for protection, inadvertently setting off a chain reaction of romantic chaos.
The play thrives on a “merry war” of social classes and temperaments. While the noble characters languish in the poetic agonies of unrequited love, the household staff and hangers-on engage in a riotous subplot of pranks and revelry. Shakespeare masterfully balances these two worlds — one sophisticated and sighing, the other crude and vengeful — to show that folly is a universal human trait regardless of rank.
What makes Twelfth Night endure is its bittersweet edge. It is a world where identity is fluid, gender is a costume, and the line between a joke and cruelty is razor-thin. It invites the audience to laugh at the absurdity of the human heart while acknowledging that, even in a comedy, “the rain it raineth every day.”
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