“I watched her break apart, in front of me, like a piece of porcelain.” ---Marlon Brando, about his mother, in The Duke in His Domain, by Truman Capote.
BrandoCapote is a dance theater piece inspired by a 1957 New Yorker magazine profile Truman Capote (then wildly famous) wrote about Marlon Brando (then meteorically famous). As the actor reveals to the writer a childhood fraught with abuse, BrandoCapote evolves into our own version of In Cold Blood, Capote's true crime masterwork.
In BrandoCapote, like In Cold Blood, Capote puts a human face on an inhuman act, as a long-forgotten real-life murder is revealed.
