Raphael,

If you watched any of the videos of the Nor Cal Rabble's Burns Night Supper this year you will see how we in our own madcap way try to bring Robert Burns and his works to our attendees. We are silly, we laugh out loud a lot, and we have fun! Yet we are trying our best in our own way to bring the man's works to life to a modern reader.

Burns Night Suppers can be dull, dry, and stogy affairs but they don't have to be.

Burns' recitations can be dull, dry, stogy readings but they don't have to be.

Didn't last year you post a rap version of the "Address to the Haggis"?

That was absolutely brilliant! Someone put some thought to bringing this 200+ old poem to a young modern audience and made those words live.

Shakespearean theater has the same challenge, to bring understanding and life to a language that the audience might not understand.

Burns' works are really quite wonderful and worth the effort to learn and share.

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:


PS: Sorry Raphael, I was writing as you were and didn't see your post above! Rest assured, Burns' works will still be there when you are ready for them.