Word: otrabanda
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...flapping blue canvas greetings from its scanty half deck. On board is a troupe of traveling players who ply their ancient art along the river's muddy banks. But their message has a decidedly new twist. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Otrabanda Theatre Company-four actors, one actress, a crew-woman and, until recently, a dog named Sweenie-this summer is bringing frenetic, sometimes avant-garde drama to 30 Mississippi River communities from St. Louis to New Orleans...
...members of Otrabanda-Sweenie excepted-are all in their mid-20s, former drama students at Antioch College under the tutelage of Flemish Playwright and Director Tone Brulin. When Brulin moved from Antioch to the Caribbean island of Curasao, a group of his devoted students joined him, and in 1971 they formed Otrabanda (named for the black residential quarter of Curasao-known as "the other side"). After returning to the U.S., the company employed Brulin's brash, blunt, highly physical and often noisy techniques mainly on tours to colleges and universities. "We played to very elite audiences," says Otrabandist David...
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