Experimental Theater Meets Experimental Faith: The Wooster Group’s “Early Shaker Spirituals”
…recreation of that source. The performers wear visible earpieces and microphones over their plain cotton dresses so as to stay in sync with the recording. The Shakers too, we find out, though famous for their “shape-note” musical notation, also learn their many complex songs by ear. Members of both groups are perceived to have sacrificed a worldly career for a cause that can’t possibly “pay off” in this life, prompting admiration and scorn from o…
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