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Topic: RSS FeedGrootvlei, South Africa.(A Sampler from the World Stage)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, February, 2005 by Estvanik, Nichole
EYE-GO PROJECT: What sort of theatre results from the collaboration of five performers, a filmmaker, an AIDS specialist and children living with HIV? No one knows--yet. But after a month of working and playing together, the artists and children will present an original show to family and community members from throughout the Mpumalanga region of South Africa (home to the TOPSY Center, where the kids live).
Justine Williams of Glass Contraption, the New York--based theatre group running the outreach project, predicts some combination of clowning, storytelling, music and games. "We are imagining a chorus of children on stilts made out of coffee cans and giant rubber bands underscored by a pots, pans and bottle orchestra," she says, "but we'll follow the...
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