The title of the exhibition comes from the tradition of living history where historical events like the American Revolution and Civil War are reenacted
by amateur performers using storytelling and props, always in an attempt to portray history as unchangeable as accurately as if it was fixed.
It's intimate and superbly acted — mostly
by amateur performers — and a film that's heartbreaking, humorous and evocative in equal measure.
Not exact matches
Mild - mannered accountant
by day, gamer
by night and occasional
performer in
amateur operas or Gilbert & Sullivan musicals.
The group's wide - ranging work, characterized
by the use of
amateur performers, is documented in photographs from their whole career.
The opera's various characters — which ephemerally appear, occasionally coincide, and leave traces of their presence in the exhibition — are played
by amateur and formally trained
performers.