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One of the ways of judging the state of health
of a society is by the quality and prevalence of its theatre. In the global
village, the mass media has made theatre obsolete; an exercise for small
minorities, even though it is sustained by the collective as a whole.
Despite this, a long experience of street
theatre has convinced us that there still exists a need for theatre, and
that those who can realise their own needs through theatre are many.
We have chosen to go and seek out the potential
audience, to find them there where they live, in their neighbourhoods,
villages, towns; to celebrate life, culture, togetherness and solidarity,
and to give our contribution to the art of theatre there in its place of
origin.
In creating The Magnificient Utopies performances,
we asked ourselves questions that set us on the road to a new street theatre.
How can theatre find a language of the senses
accessible to all?
From our exchanges with different traditions
and cultures and from the experience accumulated in many, specific theatrical
projects, a theatre has been born that aims to embrace the human being
in all its complexity.
How can dreams and visions be staged on
the street?
The image comes before the word, the feeling
before the thought, the rhythm before the prolixity.
How can complex stories be told on the street?
The performance is based on the bodily action
and ability of the actor, direct and synthetic images and actions, fascinating
settings and objects.
How can the daily routine of a city be interrupted,
people transformed into audience, the streets made once more into places
for meeting, for creativity?
Mythology, imagination, social comment, sharp
and very free satire, towards a spontaneous dialectic vision of life. |