The Acheli Chronicles/ Fall 2007

Jorge Luis Morejon. The Ashley Plays. Self-Performance.

July 24, 2007. 1 Webster Ave. Toronto. Ontario. Canada

Avatar. The Acheli Chronicles.

Photogrphy/ Judith Rudakoff. Fall 2007

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Jorge Luis Morejon collaborated with The Ashley Chronicles under the artistic direction and dramaturgy of Dr. Judith Rudakoff. The project consisted of a cycle of short-devised, site-specific performances. Each cycle began with the participants collaboratively delineating a profile of a non-gender specific character named Ashley. In the new The Acheli Chronicles, Ashley was trasformed in its phonetic Spanish equivalent, Acheli. She was still the focus of the work, but she appeared in the name of "Mercedes Bravo," a pseudonym for Acheli, who represented the voices of several Cuban women. On the Common Plants website, the audience moved through a virtual cycle of work and sites enacted through slide show images, text and audio clips. Jorge Luis Morejon gives voice to Mercedes Bravo and her meomories of a distant Cuba. There was no linear narrative, but rather a common theme: Home. " Jorge Luis Morejon invites you to share with him and other colleagues the Common Plants' cyber plays.

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link: http://www.yorku.ca/gardens/html/