Jay Cross [Sept 26 2002]

This character is recognizable by his turban, garish clothes, and long funny shoes. He usually appears as a slave owner in a scenario in which a long lost daughter returns to town. The Turk provides a lot of opportunities to do translation lazzi [Turkish to Local]. He also is usually someone that Pantalone has to deal with as a very effective business-man. The Turk also allows the injection of wild and strange culture. We like to use the Turkish 'happy dance'. The Turk is not our invention. We got his name from the first Scala scenario from the character 'Mustaffa slave, the Tofano de Bisignosi, his brother'.