Get it all out! Street theater festival starts today

A street theater festival of its own kind is scheduled to take place today through Sunday in Kaiserslautern. For the fourth year, Lebenshilfe Kaiserslautern (an association for mentally disabled persons) will sponsor the event called “Alles Muss Raus!” or “Get it all out!” in cooperation with Lebenshilfe Arts and Culture and the Rheinland-Pfalz Culture Summer. 

Twenty ensembles will turn the streets and squares of Kaiserslautern into a stage for theater and music groups. About 200 disabled and non-disabled artists from Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, Great Britain, Austria, Hungary and Japan will meet and celebrate together.

The festival will officially open with music at 8 p.m. today in Fruchthalle, known as Kaiserslautern’s concert hall. The band Living Music Box will perform summer music from a-ha to Offspring, from Johnny Cash to Violent Femmes. Tickets at the door cost €5. At the same time, the stage near Stiftskirche in the center of town will host eight musicians from six countries presenting reggae, ska and Latin.

Traditionally, there will be night performances on public places starting 9:30 p.m. today and Saturday. Theater Anu and Theater Magica will make the Stiftsplatz look like a labyrinth of lights with 3,500 candles. Figurines living in this labyrinth will be on the search for the way. They will talk about their dreams and happiness. “The Big Journey” will be a three-hour show with lights, movements and sounds.

Saturday and Sunday, street theater ensembles and music groups will turn the center between Stiftsplatz, Martinsplatz and Altenhof into an outdoor stage.
Visitors will get lured by Japanese rice field dances, English giant hens, a French unicycle torero and Austrian stilt walkers.

Musical performances will feature brass music, rock and pop music as well as bamboo sounds.

For the first time, a special children’s program is scheduled for Sunday afternoon. It includes musical theater with the reggae worm, an ant and the animal in the piano.

For more information, visit www.grenzenlos-kultur.de