Las Frutas Tropicales

A life-size diorama provides the environment that I assemble on stage to transport the viewer for fifteen minutes to the tropics for a show-and-tell lesson on fruits done in Spanish. The audience is invited to learn the names, sizes, colors and properties of these items, and to eventually experience the gradual collapse of the relationship developed between themselves and the performer, as well as of the representation of the tropics as paradise.

Presented at Dixon Place and P.S. 122, New York, NY; and Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ