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World Theater in Monte Carlo
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17628 |
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THE ARTS
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6 / 1990 |
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Claudia Woolgar
Claudia Woolgar is a free-lance theater critic and arts
journalist based in London. |
Monte Carlo is famous for its casino, its royal family, its Grand Prix motor race, and its status as a tax heaven. But how many people know that a world amateur theater festival is held there every four years? Last August, amateur theater groups from twenty-three countries strutted and fretted their hour upon the stage. It was an immense gathering from all corners of the globe, held in Europe's answer to Hollywood, and yet the publicity the festival receives remains a quiet whisper.
Although under the auspices of the International Amateur Theater Association, the World Amateur Theater Festival in Monte Carlo is actually organized by the amateur Monegasque theater company, the Studio of Monaco. The ammeter status of this group, as well as the festival's aim of giving amateur theater an international stage, explains it low profile.
With the odds stacked against them, these productions that were successful were triumphant indeed. Poland gave one of the most interesting presentations. Scena Plastyczna, a student company from the Catholic University in Lubin, performed a strikingly experimental work, so different that it took its stunned and confused audience several seconds before it began applauding. The Herbarium, by Leszek Madzik, was an allegorical play tracing man's journey through life, presented in a series of half-lit images inspired by the work of a Polish sculptor, Alina Szapocznikow.
Ominous Imagery
It was a work of often disturbing, dark, and brooding visual images - a figure descending, in string harness, onto an egg cracking
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