An Idiot Divine

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Rinde Eckert is a large man with a wide oval face and heavy feet. He looks like someone who might show up to fix the washer/dryer or climb out of a UPS van with an armload of bulky packages. That's to say, he gives the impression of being someone who could pass you on the street every day for weeks and not register for longer than it takes him to disappear from view.

When he's on stage, however, it's a different story. There--moving with planned grace or clumsiness, aiming his golden falsetto high into the ether above him, closing his eyes in some transforming reverie--he's a mesmerizing figure of a man, a powerful shaman. Earlier this season, he compelled attention in his two-hander [...]