Basma Khalid
Balconies have been an essential component in the architecture of thousands of years and their roles have evolved to adapt to local cultures and customs over the ages.
Used balconies long ago to inspire the masses, was initially balconies palace is considered "the scene" of the leaders of the appearance in front of their subjects, and was "Manaanm" (Maenianum) and one of the oldest terraces, a platform in the open air of emperors and senators to watch the wrestlers compete in the Colosseum " Roman Theater". In 1896, the "balcony" (balcony) was added to theaters to give a clearer angle to see opera shows.
In the Corona crisis, the Italians resorted to singing on their balcony in their homes, in an attempt to reinforce the collective morale of the country and support those around them, and they rediscovered their terraces as a link and a link.
Many of these general practices have spread rapidly around the world. This phenomenon achieved a theatrical condition in some cases, so we had one or two people performing artistic performances on a balcony, and several people watched it on the adjacent terraces, in order to be the condition of the public.
This was not the first time that the Italians had helped in developing the world of theater, as they had developed the Roman amphitheater in the past, to become in its current form the "Italian box" and this development continued until our time. The Italian box, the stage and the surrounding walls, as in the box, means three walls with an imaginary wall that separates the public from the actors, called the fourth wall.
Today, under the protective sanitary quarantine of the "Coffid-19" virus, Italians may create a new "balcony theater".
Expected characteristics of the balcony theater
1- Performance
The performance in this theater is based on the abrupt kinetic gesture “GESTUS”, to express the known emotional states, and this type of performance. This performance exaggerates movement and physical forms, rather than the internal feeling of the actor.
Masks can also be used in the balcony scene to contribute to the delivery of the situation. The masks were used in epic plays and Delphi comedy, except that in this new theater, gestures and masks will be an expressive solution to improve the viewing condition from the balcony, while they are used for other purposes such as the magic in the magic.
Performers may rely on voting to perform and may use it to voice, crying, baffling, anger, and so on.
2. Scenography It is
difficult to harness the scenography (the elements of the art scene) in this theater. On the level of decoration, it may be limited to conditionality, and it is a severe abbreviation of an integral element so that this part (detail) becomes a reduction to that original element. For example, the entire street is expressed conditionally by placing a light column One, or a traffic light. As for lighting, and with a limited number of balconies equipped with strong lights, this theater may rely on sunlight and evaluate its performances in broad daylight.
3. Recreation as a goal
This new theater relies primarily on entertainment, as it has emerged spontaneously from individual initiatives of isolated theater artists, who have chosen a simple entertainment template for their plays to attract audiences and relieve stress from home.
The presentations shed light on the daily life problems with a light comedic template, and this spontaneous situation may lead to the revival of the comics of Delarte, as improvisation is the basis of these initiatives and is a mainstay in the comedy of Delarte.
In addition to the fact that comedy Delarte fits the viewing condition, in terms of style of performance (kinematic gestures, and masks), in addition to the entertainment resulting from it, this honorable theater will be fertile soil for absurd casting (which is reasonable), but the difficulty of watching and relying on gestures will make it less Theater of alienation. It is also a possibility of a real-world offering within stories that happen inside a home if a viewing solution is found.
This theater, which may bear the capacity of the popular theater, despite its lack of equipment, but it is able to ask major philosophical questions about isolation and feasibility of life and others.
The likelihood of this theater arising is very low, but if it arises, its appearance will be a blatant affirmation of mankind's need for theater art, and for the actual real contact with the artist. This is due to the tyranny and the prevalence of audio-visual entertainment on the Internet, in a rate comparable to the spread of the virus with double the rate.