Visitor
Imagine of a small act in a single room of a hospital. The act of its kind numbers approx. five hundred, generated by our group of actors. The viewers are constantly changing. They are people sick and afflicted, living as outcasts.
We are talking about acting performances in Hospital rooms, in which the group of actors play on people who – during the present moment of their life – cannot come and enjoy the theater. They address the patient and tell him that they have a story about Love, Patience, the Dream or the Power of the human soul. Patient chooses and the actors start to create interactive moments that overturn the perspective of patient’s everyday life.
The idea of the group of actors for the implementation of the “Visitor” is the pillar of all actions characterized as a social theater. Social theater is not yet another solidarity. This act, although the performances are free of charge, is not a simple donation to its audience. Through the acting, it shares the concerns, is exposed and converses alive with its audience in an emergency giving a different perception of life and the world. Basically, it looks for a brave way of representing life, in places where the audience is not anonymous but acquires a person where the venue and the power of the theatrical act are confronted inside the most difficult places and facing the greatest fears, the larger taboos that nest in human consciousness.
The word sickness, the word cancer, the word death, or the word mad, or the prisoner and psychopath, are recalled and presented as a reality in front of the person, but in a way that only the theater has the freedom to express.
The group of actors has set up the Institution “Prosopo” to develop the means of social theater by penetrating to more spaces of, chronic hospitalized, imprisoned, mentally retarded children, where there is also a real and actual need.
