Imagine a play with actors lying on the grass in a park performing before a backdrop of spring green.
A parade of dancers in a shopping street with audiences invited to join.
As the performance starts, the atmosphere changes completely.
Strange Seed Shizuoka, a street theatre festival materializing such visions, was launched in 2016. As its title, Street Theatre Festival, denotes, it’s not an ordinary theatre festival—it is a festival that creates numerous questions of “What’s this? What’s that? What’s here?” in the city.

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