Actors Monique Mojica, LeAnne Howe, Lena Recollet, Evanne Saint, Justin Manyfingers, Jeff Legacy
during rehearsal of Side Show Freaks and Circus Injuns at the Center for Indigenous Theatre, Toronto.
Photography: Leslie McCue
Side Show Freaks and
Circus Injuns' studio work, based on the play written by LeAnne Howe and
Monique Mojica, on May 25, 2017, in
Miami, started on July 28 under the direction of Jorge Luis Morejon. The
trans-indigenous project is one of the first attempts to bring together
indigenous performers from different parts of the continent. They establish, in
a very short rehearsal period, a successful process that integrated a new
indigenous dramaturgy-in-the-making with embodied creative work by indigenous
actors. Their collective aim was to cover the full content of the written
script, to then have an open-studio presentation on August 14th. The plan was
to share the results of the documented process with a selective audience of
colleagues, friends and supporters. By Sunday, August 6th, before the EDO
(Equity Day Off), the team had already worked through thirty pages of the
script. Morejon's direction of this fase of the project ended abruptly on
August 6th, 2017.
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