“We have a lot of shared values in terms of our work with the community,” Cardona said. “We thought, ‘How can we pull our resources together to address this since we’re already doing it separately?’”
The theater companies are using the outdoor event to bring the community together safely and celebrate the renewal of spring. “In traumatic times, our communities have often already in a natural way sought joy and levity and humor as a way of dissipating a lot of stress,” Cardona said. “In times of pandemic during the medieval time period and across the world, there was a need for theater at its most fundamental way, which is to decompress the mind, take it offline by doing things that are very physical.”