Through the mailbox slot: Japanese theatre offers new viewing experience


  • World
  • Tuesday, 02 Mar 2021

FILE PHOTO: Audience members watch the Moonlight Mobile Theater's dance performance through peepholes at a shopping mall in Nagoya, Japan, February 19, 2021. Moonlight Mobile Theater/Ryosuke Sato/ Handout via REUTERS

TOKYO (Reuters) - The lights dim, as at the start of any theatre performance, and the audience leans forward to look through a letter-box slot or peephole in the door in front of them as the performers break out into dance.

Japanese dance company Moonlight Mobile Theater has come up with a novel way of bringing people back to their avant-garde performances while maintaining social distancing.

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