Street Theatre
The creation of outdoor / street theatre has involved the use of every art form there is. This work also frequently engages with disciplines from outside the arts, utilising everything from diggers to orienteering; marching bands to satellite photography.
The world of outdoor / street theatre is hugely eclectic, and perhaps this is the form's greatest virtue. It is, by the very nature of its presentation, democratic, and at its best, wonderfully anarchic. This eclecticism of style and content is borne from the fact that finally, the lead character of the outdoor performance is the space in which it is performed and the particular relationship between audience and performer that this space manifests.
If all theatre is finally concerned with the live confrontation between performer and audience then outdoor / street theatre may well be theatre in its purest form; a moment when the audience is asked to call into question their very relationship with their environment and the people around them.
The world of outdoor / street theatre is hugely eclectic, and perhaps this is the form's greatest virtue. It is, by the very nature of its presentation, democratic, and at its best, wonderfully anarchic. This eclecticism of style and content is borne from the fact that finally, the lead character of the outdoor performance is the space in which it is performed and the particular relationship between audience and performer that this space manifests.
If all theatre is finally concerned with the live confrontation between performer and audience then outdoor / street theatre may well be theatre in its purest form; a moment when the audience is asked to call into question their very relationship with their environment and the people around them.
