“Francis, the Holy Jester” is a one man show, a play which relies solely on the considerable skill of a highly experienced performer and the imagination of the audience. This is a show without props, without scenery and with the simplest of costume where the bond between the audience and the performer, and thus the material and subject is tangible, visceral. A whole range of characters from 13th Century Italy are brought to life before us: Popes and Cardinals, Dukes and Duchesses, soldiers on the battle field, traders in the marketplace and St. Francis himself.
Co-sponsored by U-M Romance Languages and Literatures Department, Fall 2012 LSA Translation Theme Semester, International Institute, Institute for the Humanities, and Rackham Dean’s Strategic Fund.