Thursday, February 25, 2021

Recycling Theater

A man recitating at piazza Carignano, with an indication that it is a 'Teatro Di Riciclo', a recycling theater.




With all theaters and cinema closed due to the Covid, this might be the only way people get to watch a theater performance.


By "recycling theater" we mean the action of an actor aimed at evoking a precise replica or a set of past replicas of a show in which he took part or in which he was a spectator: the story and the images of the show come back to life, thus, deeply contaminated by the narration of theatrical mechanisms and of everything that is attributable to the relationship between actors, spaces and audiences encountered. The "recycling" of the theater that has already been established does not intend to be a substitute for the theater itself; but rather a rarefied concentrate, an essence that sublimates its mobile immanence, its magic: "remaining elsewhere". Transfer of genres, a concrete basis for utopia.

 

Location : Piazza Carignano 

1 comment:

William Kendall said...

He's quite expressive. The building is beautiful.