A happening in Belfast

here is what Arpad Schilling told me a few weeks ago. it makes you think about what kind of theatre you want to make:

"It was very funny, I met this Irish street artist and I tried to explain this problem with the theatre in Hungary and it was funny because in Ireland theatre is not so important inside the culture. No big theatres, no big companies, just a few money for theatre and he told me that he didn’t understand this problem. Because what is a theatre? Is it a big auditorium and a big stage? I’ve never been to a theatre, I’m not interested in theatre. I think that the interesting place is the street, back to the people, to paint something on the wall, to make a real action. A happening is good because is a real meeting and it has real effects. He showed me one action that his friends made in Belfast. They made an action in an army center. Some activists, they were actors or clowns, went to this army center and made a funny situation but it is a different culture. The army called the police and police arrived but it was not possible to take them out because is a different culture and a different kind of democracy. It was an interesting situation: the police, the army and between them there are the clowns. It was a real situation, with no in or out. They were able to take out the clowns in the end after one hour but after that the army center was closed. It was a big success for this theatrical action. It was only one day but they had to close the army center. And that was the real aim. "