Utetmun (going home)
Tuma Theatre
text by Paul Jumbo
devised directed
Leave your everyday world and ways at the door. Anyone who won't let go of concepts like "traditional theatre," "English language," "mortality," "cause-effect," or the idea that spirituality only inhabits human beings, will probably be lost and disappointed.
Those who are willing to make the sacrifices for an hour and an half, however, will experience a highly imaginative and rewarding spectacle. This year's Tuma Theatre productions are striking in their unity, depth of meaning, as well as sight and sound imagery.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Riccio said his technique of directing lets the actors improvise the mimes, dances and sometimes the words that fit their parts. The former artistic director of a Chicago experimental, off-the-wall theatre said he let the actors compose on the rhythm of drums, without a script.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner