Parade.” In conjunction with sub-group IFAM, they
that you tended to feel drawn into the narrative of the
won several Coney Island Mermaid Parade contests
actor that was engaging you. You became instantly
in the “Sea Monster” category.
a fellow actor through the gaze and the unrestricted provocation of the speaker only a few chairs away.
Collective Unconscious artists have participated
Once there you could not escape or disengage from
in several festivals on and off site, including the New
the delivery of the actor who was addressing and
York International Fringe Festival, Underground Zero
engaging the entire audience.
Festival, and the Downtown Arts Festival. It was rewarding and so refreshing to sit down comfortably
It was so anti theatrical and anti conventional. I
while being mesmerized by diction and oral delivery
always got the feeling of participating in an assembly
of an actor talking seemingly to you, just to you, from
of our Community Board, or of some local engaging
just a few feet away. The diction, the gestures, the
crusaders or neighbors association. Most of the time
articulation of the words was so direct and so fresh
the actors were acquaintances outside of theatre and
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