Choice Words: Secrets and Truths is unusual among this year’s Uno Fest shows. Instead of a single actor and their trusty technician, it offers the audience a pack of professional storytellers, folklorists, fairytale spinners and traditionally styled musicians (and their trusty technician). It’s a taste of oral traditions that does a good job cleansing your theatrical palate after a week of “first-person” actors.
Despite two enormous screens that stand behind him and a slide show that sometimes blurs like magic into moving images, William Yang acts out one of oldest and simplest forms of performance: storytelling.
