Re: RAT The Sassies!!!!

[Adam <kafclown@well.com>]

Wow!  It sounds great!  Do you have a schedule?  (Or a pointer?  I'm
driving cross the country and might stop in Dallas for the day and night to
see a great piece of theatre!)


>I have had the good fortune to work with one of Mexico's finest theater
>artists, Abrahm
>Oceranski . His work is known all over Latin  America, and he now has a small
>following here in Dallas where he has been given the opportunity to produce
>his works at one of our finest theaters, Teatro Dallas.
> His themes are mostly western/latin but his performance style is Japanese
>Kabuki and Noh theater.
> Most recently he produced a work here called TALES FROM THE MIST based on
>Akira
>Kurosawa's ROSHOMON, which was transcendant.He transposed the original
>setting from imperial Japan to pre Mexican-American war. Set was minimal and
>costumes were a combination Texas frontier and imperial Japan. Masks and
>ritual chanting borrowed from meso american and Carribean religious
>ceremonies lent the piece and earie mythic
>quality.
> This year he is coming back to Dallas with a show called IMMOBILE JOURNEY
>(or
>Viaje Imobile in spanish) based on Shakespeare's Macbeth . The cast consists
>of three women.
>If anyone is going to be in Dallas within the coming month ,and is interested
>in a pure theatrical experiance, I urge you to see it.
> I was going to nominate his play, Tales from the Mist, but thought twice
>about it, since it is very likely that only a few of the Dallas rat-listers
>saw it.
> Christina



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