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Article: A stage portrait of Frida Kahlo // Donna Blue Lachman paints a `fantasia' about mythic life of the Mexican artist
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 15, 1987
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The huge Pilsen storefront theater of the Blue Rider ensemble
was abuzz with frantic activity last week. At a sewing machine, a
young designer was stitching a sexually explicit monkey-suit costume.
On the floor, an artist was putting the finishing touches on two huge
papier-mache "Judas figures" - a giant bare-breasted woman in a
colorful Mexican peasant skirt, and an enormous, bright red devil
with a gaping chest cavity in which a mask-like face had been
implanted. Standing quietly in the corner was a "Day of the Dead"
skeleton.
As another designer carefully applied cobalt blue paint to the
platform beneath a lace-draped bed, a young artist bounded through
the theater's front door ...