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[Kaethe Yanovsky]

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Under the Bridge Theatre Company invites all Equity members to attend
the Saturday night, May 31st performance of The Fallen Gypsy at 8pm at
The Theatre Centre for HALF PRICE -- $10.OO.

This is the World Premiere of an original multi-disciplinary Canadian
work 
Written & performed by Natalie Breton. Directed by Linda Matassa
Live music by improvisational violinist Karen Graves
Lighting design by David Gibbons.
Set and Costume design by April Viczko.
Flamenco choreography Nancy Cardwell. Vocal consultant Katherine
Duncanson.

Limited engagement - 10 performances only: Opens May 30 - June 8, 2003

Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen St. W. (entrance on Dovercourt)
Tues - Thurs @ 8 PM: $15 
Fri & Sat @ 8 PM: $20
Wed & Sun @ 2 PM: PWYC

Theatre Centre Box Office: 
(416) 538-0988

THE FALLEN GYPSY
Based on the life story of Rom songwriter, poet and performer Bronislawa
Wajs (better known as Papusza), The Fallen Gypsy is a beautiful and
haunting theatrical experience about a talented woman caught between two
cultures - and forced to choose between her art and her people. 
In a psychiatric hospital in Silesia, Papusza re-lives her struggle to
communicate her people\'s often-secretive culture and bittersweet legacy
to both Rom and Polish peoples. The first literate female Rom poet,
Papusza had illicitly learned the very non-Gypsy skill of reading and
writing, earning both the disapproval of her mother as well as the
suspicion of her
community. When a number of her poems are published by the dissident
poet Ficowski, Papusza has to defend herself before a Gypsy court on
charges of betrayal.
Poetry, music, movement, song and flamenco interweave as Papusza
navigates the crevices between colliding worlds, daring all that is
forbidden to her as a Rom, a woman, an artist and a visionary.
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