The Tattooed Man Tells All

Author(s): Peter Wortsman
A one-man show that takes place in a studio apartment in a public housing project in Vienna, circa 1975. At one point the old man pulls his old zebra-striped camp uniform out of the closet and insists that the interviewer try it on for size. The uniform becomes a life-sized marionette. Man and marionette change places, the marionette becomes the protagonist’s former self and the protagonist himself takes on the role of the tormentor.
Format:One-man show

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Nationality of Author:U.S.
Experience(s) Chronicled:Survivors and Subsequent Generations
Tags: Vienna, puppets

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