Busker’s Dream: A Poem for a Park is a site-specific theatrical event that transposes everyday interactions into theater. The show begins with a guided walk, during which a guide warms up the audience’s sense of observation and wonder. When the audience arrives at the park, they are invited to sit and observe. Soon, a variety of characters are passing through the park, all going about their daily lives. Then someone different appears—an old woman, with a cane and a mysterious suitcase. She approaches the audience, acknowledges their presence, and then transforms the park into a stage, on which the untold stories of these characters will be played out in the style of a street variety show.

Street shows propose a kind of artistic magic, which is that any public space can spontaneously turn into a theater, where the public can gather to collectively experience creative expression. Masks propose a certain kind of magic as well, one that lives in the land of archetypes and projections. Busker’s Dream combines these proposals into an homage to a public space, and to the people like you, that pass through it.