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The Sziget Festival has brought several big and spectacular street theatre performances to its island venue over the past several years. In 2006, the Polish Teatr Osmego Dnia put on a marvellous performance called Ark, and in 2007, the French troupe Transe Express performed Les Rois Faignants (The Lazy Kings). This year the festival organisers presented Kitonb, which performed Carillon 3.0, a story of the world "that plays out between the earth and the sky", according to the troupe's website.
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A giant cube of woven rope was the centrepiece of the performance, providing the troupe's acrobats with a kind of multifaceted stage. The "sky" appeared as acrobats descending from a crane like beautiful silvery ornaments.
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Though everything was in place for an outstanding street theatre performance, the troupe failed to deliver. Much of performance was on stage and lacked the interaction and intimacy with the audience that good street theatre requires. The performance was more like conventional theatre.
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The only redeeming feature of the performance was its loud and grand finale in which the acrobats light torches and hover, taking on the appearance of heavenly creatures to create a memorable image.
Author: Ádám Mestyán / Photo: Máté Nándorfi
