Trickster Project: February 2004 at the Back Door Theater, Portland, Oregon. |
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The face is the location of identity, of personality, of self. What happens in the face of an actor when she-he is in character? Who is that face? The current incarnation of the character? Or the current incarnation of the actor? |
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This portrait along with six others portray the cast of Trickster Tells This Story, a devised theater piece which revolves around the stories of the trickster characters of the mythologies of seven cultures. The series includes Br'er Rabbit from African American folktales, the Arabian Nasrudin, the Native American Coyote, the Asian Monkey, the Russian Fox, the South American tortoise Jabuti, and the Norse god Loki. |
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