Fuori dal teatro
- Out of the Theater
Meet Teatro Due Mondi and its Street.
This seminar has
the intention of introducing participants to the complex dramaturgy work beneath
a play that develops in an open space street show.
Every actor working alone or in a group must know al least some of the elements
that will guide the attention of the outdoor public, the walking spectator.
We start from an analysis of two street shows by Teatro Due Mondi and through
practical examples, will define the elements (directing, acting and the dramaturgy)
needed to develop a style.
The moving show: actors and spectators walking together
The particularity
of a street show, rather than just the moving actors, is given by the fact that
the public follows . This implies a different construction of scenes, space
and dramaturgy of the actors physical performance.
They will have to reach all of the possible spectator's point of view.
To be followed is the goal, to marvel an seduce the strategy.
They walk together, actors and spectators in a confusion of roles, trying to
merge in a unique crowd that crosses town.
The space: invisible threads of geometric lines
To guide the attention
of the public in a non conventional space, in the street or out of the theatre,
we need to know how to design abstract architecture: trace invisible lines,
invent new and mobile stages to enter and exit the scene in the towns corners.
We need to built an invisible Theatre, that can be demolished and rebuilt for
our use.
Theatre in the street: theatre into life
Theatre is not
only an analogy of real life, for there it is conceived and nourished, when
situated in the street it becomes normal day to day life.
The show must always relate and absorb from the places that it crosses, to the
point where it merges in them.
To stay into life to feel alive, feel alive to be the chore of life itself with
a new rhythm, renewed energy and vitality.
Techniques of seduction: the marvel of the eyes
The technique of
the actor in seducing the public.
We know that a street spectator may leave us, if he doesn't fall in love he
won't stay long.
He didn't pay the ticket and is not comfortably seated. We can lose him at every
time.
That is why we need to make him feel he is always observed, that he is important.
The actor, while working in the street, enforces his energy because he fears
to be abandoned.