[Leica] IMG: Wayback Photos - Willem Dafoe in Student Plays, 1973

[Douglas Barry]

Great images, Alan. Dafoe is a great actor.


On 30/09/2020 05:13, Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG wrote:
> In 1973, before she got her degrees in Mass Communication and Women's
> Studies, my wife Kathryn was in the acting program at the
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and performed in two productions with
> Willem Dafoe, who went on to act in New York and in films.
> Naturally, I took pictures.
>
> Here are two of Dafoe from that spring.  The first is from "The Devils"
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work/Theater/Dafoe_DevilsJ33_1973_AMR.jpg.html
> This one is from "Premise", an original production by a grad student, Guy
> Meyer.  In this, the studio theater was divided into areas for each actor
> (or actors)
> and the audience walked through on their own schedule as the performers
> ad-libbed in character.  Willem Dafoe was "Death".
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work/Theater/Dafoe_Premise_1973_AMR.jpg.html
> Also in "Premise", Jeff Browne portrayed the "Mirror Man", who would mimic
> whatever the spectator was doing. This is his response to my photographing
> him.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work/Theater/Dafoe_Premise_1973_AMR.jpg.html