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Street Theater – Performed in Inner CourtyardsTheatrical performances staged at cozy venues set amidst the Linz cityscape are festivalgoers' favorites. As always, the selected productions offer a close-up look at the wide-ranging, colorful and fascinating world of international street theater.Detailed information about the various troupes and the productions they’re staging is being published in the wasistlos? section of the OÖN (leading local newspaper). Maps showing the locations of alternate venues (in case of rain) are available at all Infopoints. Free seating tickets |
T1
- House of Stories
(Pfarrplatz 18)
Circus Bone Idle (Ireland), Kate Lawrence (England) & Camillocromo (Italy)
THU, FRI, SAT, 6 pm.
“Raschmunzel”
A special highlight is this premiere that will be thrilling audiences from the façade of the former Linz09 House of Stories on Pfarrplatz.The play is an account of a building and its occupants. A Gypsy band appears and breathes life into these premises. The residents get active on the structure’s façade in a display that’s a combination of tightrope performance and puppetry, movement and fascinating imagery. This performance has received financial support from the Linz09 Pflasterspektakel Production Grant. As a sustainable, ongoing initiative of the Capital of Culture Year, Linz09 and the Pflasterspektakel Linz International Street Arts Festival award this grant to foster artistic production by international street artists. 
T2
- Brückenkopf Building East Inner Courtyard
(access via Hauptplatz or Neutorgasse)
Die Stelzer (Germany)
THU, FRI, SAT: 5 & 9 pm.
“Rheingold - Die Götter lachen laut!”
Pflasterspektakel premiere!“Die Götter lachen laut” (The Gods Laugh Loudly) is a one-hour play adapted from Wagner’s “Rheingold” that explores the diversity of theater on stilts and, at the same time, shows how mobile, how democratic, how open theater can be—accessible by everyone, everywhere. The play is an up-close-and-personal theatrical experience that combines operatic imagery, fabulous puppetry and timeless themes of human life. In short, it deals with the question: money or love? Reserved seat tickets are available at the Infopoint on Hauptplatz or 10 minutes before the performance in the Innenhof (inner courtyard)! Additional information here. 
T3
- Alter Markt
(access via Hofgasse or Altstadt)
lotte-gruup (Germany)
THU, FRI, SAT: 7 & 10 pm.
“Verpasst – Flying Theater”
Pflasterspektakel premiere!
T4
- Tummelplatz
(access via Altstadt or Promenade)
Mosaique (Germany)
THU, FRI, SAT: 9 & 11 pm.
“Vertigo”
“Vertigo” tells of dizziness caused by high altitude, as well as the decision to get over this dizziness and to take the last step forward into nothingness. It’s a story about outfoxing gravity and the energy of fire.
T5
- Landhaus-Arkadenhof
(access via Promenade or Klosterstraße)
ARGE Theater (Austria)
FRI: 8 pm., SAT: 4 pm.
“Jeder ist sich selbst.” (Everyone is Himself)
Pflasterspektakel premiere!This project was launched by an organization providing services for homeless men and women in Linz. This group has long used theatrical pedagogical methods, and already has some Pflasterspektakel experience under its belt. This theater-of-the-absurd comedy by up-and-coming author Stephan Roiss deals with the reality of everyday life at a government agency. The setting: a waiting room. The issue: what are the consequences when people turn into numbers? Reserved seat tickets are available at the Infopoint on Hauptplatz or 10 minutes before the performance in the Innenhof (inner courtyard)! Additional information here. THU: 6 & 8 pm.; FRI: 4 & 6 pm. 
T6
- Promenade
(near the Sparkasse)
Kud Ljud (Slovenia)
THU: 7 pm. (extra-vehicular activity), FRI, SAT: 2 pm. to 12 Midnight (spontaneous interactions)
„Electric Invasions“
They walk among us! The point of departure of an intervention in the public sphere is a spatial installation in the form of a mysterious silver flying object with a life of its own. The pink extraterrestrials have landed and they’re reconnoitering this planet and its inhabitants in highly authentic ways. With humor and intelligence, they call into question things that many Earthlings take completely for granted.
This production is made possible by the support of 
T7
- Sparkassenplatz
(Inner courtyard: access via Arkade Taubenmarkt or Herrenstraße)
SILK & Sicher UK (Österreich/Deutschland)
THU, FRI, SAT: 6 and 8 pm.
"DRUMS, BREAKS & FREE FLOW AERIAL"
The internationally renowned troupe founded by Linz-native Silke SILK Grabinger (Cirque du Soleil) collaborated with Sicher UK, one of the world’s leading security technology providers, to develop a show that combines aerial acrobatics, freerunning, breakdance and drumming. In this 30-minute performance, the normal limits of gravity are temporarily suspended. Four drummers demonstrate all that’s possible with their instrument. The musical director is Martinez, the drummer of Jack Frost.
Reserved seat tickets are available at the Infopoint on Hauptplatz or 10 minutes before the performance in the Innenhof (inner courtyard)! Additional information here. 
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