“Teatro di Liberazione” book review

Why do we do theatre? Among the many answers, the most correct is: for the “Alegria”. This is why people clap their hands and not because we are gods: we give back joy and the will to live to the people.

This book is a manual of visual theatre and street arts. Not because it should only be practiced in the street, but because the street becomes the testing ground for theatricality. If it can work on the street, without equipment and protections (lights, sets, etc.), capturing, maintaining and intriguing the attention of passers-by, then it can work anywhere. A quality street theatre and a puppet theatre that doesn’t even need puppets to be represented is a theatre that has a real, social meaning, aimed at the public in a non-demagogic way.

By reading these pages (and above all by practicing them) it will be possible to share the potential of a total experience, within which the gender distinctions between children’s theatre and theatre for adults, and between the artistic and social dimensions disappear.

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