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STANDING ON THE PLAINS
Posted by Chris Coleman | 02 September 2011 | Comments (0)
It's one thing to read about the number of African American cowboys there were in the West (1 in 3). It's another to see photographs from the period.
But something magic starts to happen when you see the actors, who have been working in jeans and a t-shirt in the rehearsal space, begin to step into the actual boots of the characters (Rodney Hicks, above, plays Curly in our production).
Brianna Horne brings a delicious saltiness to her Laurey, and you definitely get the sense that she has worked the farm from the time she was knee-high to a grasshopper.
Justin Lee Miller (lurking as Jud in the background) brings a quiet intensity to the farmhand's story, as well as a voice that would melt butter.
It's really not all that hard to swagger around when you're wearing cowboy boots, chaps, a holster and pistol.
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