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Street Theatre Attracting and Holding an Audience Adaptable Formats Marches/Protests: Increasing your individual impact
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CostumesLike props, keep it simple. Use: big pieces of cloth for cloaks and tunics. Sheets or lightweight curtains from charity shops . What you need is an easily recognisable symbol. Robin Hood - buy a Robin hat or make one with green felt and wear with a green piece of material as a cloak, knotted at the throat. Judge - large piece of black cloth over the shoulders, wrapped over the arms and hanging down to the calves makes a 'Judge's robe' with a wig bought from a fancy dress shop. A tunic is the simplest, most versatile costume to make and wear. A piece of cloth with a slit at the shoulder in the form of a cross so you can put your head through it. It can hang down to the knees or ankles, and can be tied with string or not. You could use green ones for Robin Hood and his merry men and women, Black for deathly figures etc, or you could paint a BIG sign on it in a contrasting colour such as the nuclear sign. To stand out in the crowd , all wear the same colour, but not black.
White overalls - lightweight ones - can be bought from workwear shops. These are good for nuclear suits too. Mourner in black cloth - a large piece can be draped over the head and shoulders like a huge shawl hanging down to the knees.
Women in Burka - same as above. MasksImagine how very striking it would be to have white masks on white-clad figures! Just three of you can make a very big visual impact with this. Buy white plastic masks from craft shops. They can be painted. Remember that if you are going to speak, you need a half mask, not covering the mouth. Make them out of thin card from an art shop and they can be twice as large as your head. They can be flat, and you just have to cut a slot each side of and beneath the nose so that your nose can push that flap up. Paste on the face of the person your mask is (e.g. Gordon Brown) cut out from a newspaper, or from the Internet, and enlarged on a photocopier.
-at a street acts workshop- Paper bag mask. A brown paper bag or a paper carrier bag over your head is great. A drawing or picture (as above) can be pasted on Animal, Tree etc masks can be bought from craft shops and children's toys shops. Face paint is great and so simple. It marks you out beforehand. Wet wipes make you incognito again quickly. Clown: see the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA)'s website. Rebel Clown Army for short.
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