Yesterday I went to see a piece of street theatre. It's from a company named Alamala, which is the pride and joy of a friend of mine, Pato. They did a, well, quite unusual version of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet". Alamala consists of three guys who together impersonated all characters in the play. Needless to say the guy with the wig playing Juliet was hilarious. As was Pato with his cheesy blonde wig as Romeo. The funniest parts were probably the ones where the guys themselves couldn't stop laughing over the improvised lines their co-actors put in. The fact that Mercutio used Chilean swear words and Romeo was sent an e-mail concerning Juliet's death somehow weren't the strangest details in all of it.
Street theatre is low budget so there were few props, which means it all came down to the strange moves and funny faces the actors pulled off. And believe me, Pato has some funny faces. It gathered quite a crowd, after all it was a Friday night in early spring and some of the curious tourists stayed around to watch the play. I went with a friend and his sister. Afterwards, we went for a sandwich in an American-looking place. We left when live funk music started with this lady singing about how she was an angel that had fallen from the skies because her wings were too heavy. A nice little night out, all in all - and one to scratch off the list.
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