With up to 20.000 visitors the Welttheater der Straße is one of the biggest and most well-established festivals for street theatre in Germany. Every last weekend in August the historical city center of Schwerte (NRW) is transformed into a poetic and surreal landscape. For the host it is most important to utilise the including effect of street theatre - crossing both linguistic and social borders - and to show the different influences of the 15-20 international groups, that are chosen.
The festival takes place every year. This year's 24th edition will feature at least three Spanish groups: Companyia La Tal (Barcelona), La Trócola Circo and Laitrum Theatre witth the support of AC/E.
"The Incredible Box" by the Spanish theatre company Companyia La Tal. 150 years have passed since the premiere of "The Incredible Box" and still it can be seen on the streets! The big box opens up and turns into a stage and a scenery for artists, singers and magicians. A sensation from long-forgotten times! We've got moldy costumes, a stage set that seems to be from another time and a lot of good intentions. Something like this has to be protected! The strange great-grandson tries to help the show to live up to glamour and glory of former times. Two strange assistants help him on this way by being singers, artists and helpers. Only one thing hasn't been inherited from the ancestors: talent! The singer cannot sing, the artist triggers a disaster and the magician has no idea about his craft whatsoever. And so chaos takes its course ... and the audience loves it!
"Potted" by the Spanish theatre company La Trócola Circus. La Trócola Circus Company is presenting a unique, original show, which can be described as a combination of artistic juggling, acrobatics and the discovering of space, objects, structures and rhythms. With more than 700 pots of different sizes the artists present their abilities, form meandering landscapes and change the positions of objects. The ultimate goal is to discover the essence of the objects. This ambitious proposal seeks common ground between sculptural harmony and chaos, static and dynamic, artificial and organic, gravity and weightlessness, the limitation of objects, the human existence and the dissolution of boundaries
"Potted" is a spectacular performance full of visual poetry, a demonstration of movement, space, rhythm and precision. The performance is well thought out, well planned and wants to do both discover and surprise. Past international performances of "Potted" include Cirque Plus (Belgium), Pflasterspektakel (Austria), Zürcher Theaterspektakel (Switzerland) and Artists Fair of Paderborn (Germany).
"Micro Shakespeare" by the Spanish theatre company Laitrum Teatre. It takes the object theatre "Micro Shakespeare" only eight minutes to stage famous masterworks of world literature. Attendants become part of the plays, make momentous decisions like "to be or not to be", slip into the role of elves in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and love and suffer with "Romeo and Juliet". "Hamlet", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Romeo and Juliet", "The Tempest" and "MacBeth" can be seen within one day only. Responsible for the concept are Toti Toronell from the "Laitrum Theatre" in Barcelona and Angus McKechnie from the Royal National Theatre in London. "Micro Shakespeare" is a fresh and interactive approach to the old Shakespeare classics.
The festival takes place every year. This year's 24th edition will feature at least three Spanish groups: Companyia La Tal (Barcelona), La Trócola Circo and Laitrum Theatre witth the support of AC/E.
"The Incredible Box" by the Spanish theatre company Companyia La Tal. 150 years have passed since the premiere of "The Incredible Box" and still it can be seen on the streets! The big box opens up and turns into a stage and a scenery for artists, singers and magicians. A sensation from long-forgotten times! We've got moldy costumes, a stage set that seems to be from another time and a lot of good intentions. Something like this has to be protected! The strange great-grandson tries to help the show to live up to glamour and glory of former times. Two strange assistants help him on this way by being singers, artists and helpers. Only one thing hasn't been inherited from the ancestors: talent! The singer cannot sing, the artist triggers a disaster and the magician has no idea about his craft whatsoever. And so chaos takes its course ... and the audience loves it!
"Potted" by the Spanish theatre company La Trócola Circus. La Trócola Circus Company is presenting a unique, original show, which can be described as a combination of artistic juggling, acrobatics and the discovering of space, objects, structures and rhythms. With more than 700 pots of different sizes the artists present their abilities, form meandering landscapes and change the positions of objects. The ultimate goal is to discover the essence of the objects. This ambitious proposal seeks common ground between sculptural harmony and chaos, static and dynamic, artificial and organic, gravity and weightlessness, the limitation of objects, the human existence and the dissolution of boundaries
"Potted" is a spectacular performance full of visual poetry, a demonstration of movement, space, rhythm and precision. The performance is well thought out, well planned and wants to do both discover and surprise. Past international performances of "Potted" include Cirque Plus (Belgium), Pflasterspektakel (Austria), Zürcher Theaterspektakel (Switzerland) and Artists Fair of Paderborn (Germany).
"Micro Shakespeare" by the Spanish theatre company Laitrum Teatre. It takes the object theatre "Micro Shakespeare" only eight minutes to stage famous masterworks of world literature. Attendants become part of the plays, make momentous decisions like "to be or not to be", slip into the role of elves in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and love and suffer with "Romeo and Juliet". "Hamlet", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Romeo and Juliet", "The Tempest" and "MacBeth" can be seen within one day only. Responsible for the concept are Toti Toronell from the "Laitrum Theatre" in Barcelona and Angus McKechnie from the Royal National Theatre in London. "Micro Shakespeare" is a fresh and interactive approach to the old Shakespeare classics.