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"A Feast of
Fools" special edition T-shirt, 1996 |
"A Feast of Fools" was developed for Bumbershoot, Seattle's Arts Festival, in
1996, in collaboration with Susy Schneider and Gene Gentry McMahon.
Susy developed her idea in response to
a much more mundane one put forth by One Reel (Bumbershoot's producer).
Susy based her vision on the medieval
festival
Feast of Fools,
an imitation of the Roman Saturnalia, "in
which power, dignity and impunity is briefly conferred on those in a
subordinate position." (-Wikipedia)
This inversion of power was played out doubly in our feast,
in that a model of the set was created first, and 13 performing groups,
selected by Susy, were invited to create work responding to the set.
Our bawdy theater played to delighted
crowds on a rotating schedule throughout the festival.
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The Snoqualmie Room
transformed into a medieval "cathedral" |
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The Snoqualmie Room before (and after) "A Feast of
Fools"
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Heaven and Paradise
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The Temporal Plane,
backdrops by Gene Gentry McMahon |
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The Maw of Hell
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Umo performs a musical number in the Maw of Hell
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The Maw of Hell from the back of the Feast of Fools T-shirt
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