conversations in ten questions 67: Floriana Frassetto (Mummenschanz)
What is the essence of theater in your opinion? I can only speak about the essence of my world. Our essence is to give emotions, playfulness and interactivity to help the audience from 4 to 104, to find their innocent playfulness and imagine and invent. We have 30 little stories in our show, and each one is full of emotions of very different ideas, some contemporary. People all over the world feel these emotions because they are to do with love, with hate, with competition, with jealousy. So, our essence is really to guide the people to that innocent world and imagine. Do you believe in the transformative power of art? How? Yes. I mean, I go to a museum and some paintings, sculptures transform something in me for sure. Not that I rush back home and want to copy, but they give me that emotion. They give me that strength to continue my way and maybe to invent something. So I do believe that the arts have a very powerful message that we should listen to, and I believe a lot of peop...