PRODUCTIONS


QUIJOTE!


THE MAGNIFICIENT UTOPIAS
THEATRE IN OPEN SPACES



Quijote!FrancescoMascaróTempestaFRANKENSTEIN




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.





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