Doing It In The Street

by Ruth Barker, 26 May 2011

Hello,

I’m taking half an hour off from looking at our upcoming article to listen to a really interesting programme on Radio 4. It’s called Doing It In The Street and it’s a history of street performance, presented by Martin Reeve.

I found it really useful to think about street theatre as having a parallel history to that of public art, as it seems to be generated from many of the same political, social, and artistic catalysts. Interesting to hear about the connection to guy Debord and the Situationists – whom I haven’t thought about in terms of the context of street theatre before.

It’ll be on the iplayer soon. I can’t give the link yet, as the programme’s still on, so it hasn’t yet been uploaded to the archive. But I’ll put it hear later. Remember you only get 7 days to listen back so check it out soon.

Good old Radio 4. I love it.

More later,
R