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International Street Theatre Festival Yelagin Park in Saint Petersburg
The International Street Theatre Festival is an outdoor performance event that for a decade transformed Yelagin Island's central park into a stage for touring street theatre companies from across Europe and beyond. Every corner of the island hosted simultaneous performances, from large-scale spectacles to intimate pantomime, blurring the line between audience and performance for three days each summer.
For ten years, Yelagin Island, the northernmost of the three islands that make up Saint Petersburg's Central Park of Culture and Leisure, became something unusual for three days each summer: an entire outdoor stage with no fixed seating and no single show.