Naked theater (photos)

Hearing the name [of art curator Marat] Guelman, they shut their eyes, lock their doors and lie on the floor. At the mere mention of contemporary theater, they know they must make the sign of the cross, lock their children in a dark room and sit next to an alarm button in the event that they need to call the Cossacks, the police or someone else… Neither inflation, corruption, unemployment, bad medicine, bad roads, crumbling buildings nor beggarly wages are what our people fear – it’s modern theater – naked and obscene, designed to corrupt the children of Russia. That’s what really scares and worries.

“Naked, Obscene Theater, That’s What Our People Fear” – On Russian Theatre and Politics

A Barcelona theater hosted the first film screening for naked audiences in Spain, an event simultaneously replicated in cinemas in Madrid and Valencia to challenge the taboos around nudity.

“The nude form is used to effectively strip away societal roles, statuses and stigmas,” reads an official description of the 90-minute production. “Naked theater reminds us of the essential humanity that we all share.” And, given the whirlwind two years we’ve just had, a reminder that we are basically all the same sounds like a pretty good message.

This new theater show features an entirely naked cast