Tarocco

TAROCCO: A SOLDIER’S TALE

Performance: Thursday, August 25 at 7:30PM

An original production from The Fox & Beggar Theater in Asheville, N.C. Co-produced with Arts and Cultural Events at WCU.

A mesmerizing fusion of circus arts, dance, live music, and lushly animated video to tell the story of an Italian WWI soldier trapped behind enemy lines. The soldier comforts a dying comrade with stories using the images from an ancient deck of playing cards known as the Tarocco Piemontese (a predecessor of modern Tarot cards). What follows is a spellbinding and dark narrative based on the Fool’s Journey of the Tarot.