Theatre in the Street

Extracts of an article of several pages on the show, with very detailed and very interesting observations.

And for a trial, it was - almost - a masterwork. (...) A theatrical experience that comes out of the ordinary. (...) An art rid of all artifice, any superfluous, which is to the theatre that the understatement is to the literature and the Minimal Art to painting or sculpture ("Less is more"). (...) Other spectators, less experienced, disturbed in their habits and intellectual comfort, were disoriented by the new form of drama that their proposed through "My Body, Your Voice and his thought," The Theatre de la Mer [Sea's Theater] on the stage-laboratory of TNA (*) (...) Any new action carriest, with clashes and gnashing of teeth, sometimes its string of incomprehension (...) There was a third category of spectators who had the intelligence, the preoccupation or the presence of mind to watch the spectacle with new eyes, having been, after the moment of surprise, "swing" over board - over the stage, I should say - many concepts learned. Those were the happiest. Many of them came back 2 or 3 times, taste the same spectacle. (...)

Kamal Bendimerad

Weekly «Algérie-Actualités»

(lAlgiers-Algeria), 1969.

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(*) National Theatre of Algiers (Algeria).