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The Daily OrangeWhat lies within: 'Little Person' tells five stories of self-identity
By Amity Paye
Posted: 3/4/09, 3:45 AM EST Section: Feature
"Les Avions en Papiers" (Paper Planes), first transformed the actor's fingers into creepy crawlers, which jumped onto a paper plane and flew to a box full of masks. Once donned, these masks changed each actor into a different person.
"Identity Theft", a skit by Liz Tancredi, showed each character copying the fashion of the one before them until only one is left. But when tempted with a credit card the last individual person is pulled in and decides to copy the fashion as well.
At the end of the show, after Morris emerged from under a small box containing many mini paper cutout people, and the cast stripped down to tights with underwear on top, performing to the song "Little Person" from the film "Synecdoche, New York."
"I'm just a little person in a sea of many little people," sang the cast as each member threw away an aspect of their skit, representing their personal identity, and joined hands for their final bow as a group. The crowd went wild and gave a standing ovation.
"I liked the end with all of them coming together and being little people together," said Kristin Kelly, a musical theatre major. "There is a lot of academia in theatre, there are a lot of boundaries in drama, but this performance broke the binds."
ampaye@syr.edu
"Identity Theft", a skit by Liz Tancredi, showed each character copying the fashion of the one before them until only one is left. But when tempted with a credit card the last individual person is pulled in and decides to copy the fashion as well.
At the end of the show, after Morris emerged from under a small box containing many mini paper cutout people, and the cast stripped down to tights with underwear on top, performing to the song "Little Person" from the film "Synecdoche, New York."
"I'm just a little person in a sea of many little people," sang the cast as each member threw away an aspect of their skit, representing their personal identity, and joined hands for their final bow as a group. The crowd went wild and gave a standing ovation.
"I liked the end with all of them coming together and being little people together," said Kristin Kelly, a musical theatre major. "There is a lot of academia in theatre, there are a lot of boundaries in drama, but this performance broke the binds."
ampaye@syr.edu
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