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Democracy In America
Romeo Castellucci is one of Europe's most celebrated directors, a firebrand known for productions that are as thought-provoking as they are visually stunning. He returns to Peak Performances, his American home, where in the past he has challenged and electrified audiences with productions of Go Down, Moses; Hey Girl; On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God; and Dante's Inferno. In his Democracy in America, Castellucci conjures majorettes who stir a crowd's enthusiasm, colonial settlers who bewilder the native Americans, and a Puritan couple who struggle to farm a barren land, to expose the shame of our nation's treatment of Indigenous peoples. Castellucci's all-female cast plays all the roles, and this deliberate use of cultural appropriation provokes flash consideration of our current political and social landscape.