Street theater is probably the oldest form of theater and is also one of the most attractive entertainments on warmer days in the city, and at the same time it has a kind of unique social note, as it is accessible to everyone who loves theater, even those who cannot afford to visit in one way or another such formal institutions.
Both the audience and the performers come from different backgrounds social classes, cultures, nationalities... mutual interaction thus consists of everyone and for everyone who wants to watch, participate, show. Above all, it's easy great medium, which uncompromisingly criticizes, reminds, follows, visualizes, laughs, relaxes, activates, experiments, enriches ... In some older European cities, street theaters are already a regular feature, there is already an informally defined space for the event, and for every performing artist it is also a challenge how to endear oneself to the audience with mime, dance, acting, and the genre of the performance. Here, criticism is uncensored, immediate and unchallenged. The performance itself can also be an indirect medium for social activists, who try to directly address, confront, and involve the public in the current social situation and in the political area of thinking through performance work.
Be that as it may, the man in the street is imbued with a unique energy, with a peculiar and universal integrity, more democratic than democracy itself. First and foremost, it is the man on the street who breathes life into the city itself, and the roles he portrays, whether spontaneous or moderated, allow us to maintain contact with the child in our subconscious. Well, you know what they say, if you lose your childhood curiosity and dreams, you lose your will to live, and how quickly emotions of excitement and joy can restore or give a new impetus. Otherwise, if we talk about the street art of European cities, as its observers or admirers, we can be significantly different from those who got lost in the labyrinthine streets Tokyo, where street art feeds appetites with eccentric cosplay, screaming concerts and bizarre performances, while on the other side of the ocean we are treated to a different, yet American, way of communicating. In this metropolitan city that never sleeps, eyes are fixed on the twinkling lights of Broadway, jazz clubs and delicious restaurants. Of course I'm talking about New York and every New Yorker's little secret is that life is never busy despite the glitz or the financial crisis. You can read what charms the big apple and street art offer us if you turn a few pages, but above all, don't forget that the price of a street theater ticket is a coin in a hat.
166 - City Magazine - JUNE 3-17, 2013 by City Magazine
