Clark said she has long been interested in European street theater, but that the art form is difficult to finance in the United States. She encountered the work of the Spanish artists Itsaso Iribarren and Germán de la Riva at a street theater festival in Spain; last fall she matched them with a New York-based writer and director, Carin Jean White, and invited the three to create a work for the 150-acre state park where her nonprofit operates. When the pandemic made in-person collaboration impossible, she wondered if it would be possible to continue, but the team forged a relationship online and created a script that combines poetry, music and physical theater. This show, like most of these ventures, loses money — tickets are $15 — and Clark, whose organization ordinarily has a $5.5 million annual budget, said “we still have our challenges — it’s going to be rough.” But, she said, “responding to what is happening to us today, in this place, in this community, is the main point of what this is about.”

Source: New York Times August 12, 2020 19:37 UTC