Right-wing street theatre in Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka, street theatre will be used to warn people of the dangers of trying to enter Australia illegally by boat. Now that's gotta be a first! After all, the medium was invented by dirty, smelly hippies with absolutely no talent to inflict their moronic leftist dogmas upon unsuspecting pedestrians.
(Although I suppose you could look at it another way and see people smugglers as extreme capitalists who profit hugely from people's desire for a better life. Then performing street theatre against it could still be deemed a progressive pursuit ... Still, lefties have never looked at it that way. So it's safe to say that this new use of the medium is a major subversion of the dominant paradigm.)
So, could this eeevil right-wing hijacking of a beloved bolshie performance mode be the beginning of a conservative cultural revolution? Will the forces of darkness wrest other modes of, er, "creative" expression from the left? Are we about to see a climate sceptics' indy rock band, giant puppets for Christ, or a nude protest against porn?
Hmm. Somehow I doubt it. Oz lefties would fight tooth and nail to preserve the status quo. Sure, they can't stop right-wing street theatre being performed over in Sri Lanka, but there's no way they'll let it catch on over here. That'd be illegal immigration!
