Let us take a step into dreamland, and take a moment to imagine what it would be like to increase the fun in our lives.  A smile maybe, or a laugh from the heart which “gRey The Mime” gift it to us everyday.

Beirut Art Magazine had the chance to interview gRey and go behind the scenes.

What is your title?

gReY The Mime

What shows you work on?

I am a professional mime-clown.

How do you describe your job?
I am a clown who mimes in a fun way and improvises what appears in his mind, with ironic imagination, without the use of external objects and which require particular skills.

I am a so-called physical actor, who entertains passersby on the street using the human instruments of the oldest theater, the one deriving from the very Italian comedy of art.

What skills are necessary for a person in your position?

My work requires a public authorization with a public call, obtained thanks to a considerable curriculum of theatrical, television and cinematographic experiences accumulated over the years.

What motivates you to keep doing what you are doing?My source of inspiration are the passers-by, the people most commonly, immersed in everyday life, I take inspiration from their attitudes and with respectful irony I imitate them, while without being aware of my presence, this becomes hilarity for those passers-by, instead, who stop to watch my performances.

What is your profession’s greatest challenge today?

Trying to embrace more and more public, the tools I use are those of love, irony, brotherhood, exhibited in a public place, I try 

to contaminate as many people as possible through my theater, so that they too are more attentive to the more human aspect of life.

What advice would you give to someone who wants to do what you do?

We become theater actors after many years of study, therefore, I advise young people who want to undertake this noble profession, to study and prepare. In addition, even a good dose of courage must not be missing, often, someone who by nature can be shy but who would like to start this path, feels inhibited and not up to taking it. The actor’s job is a job, and as every job must be done as best as possible, the nature of one’s being does not necessarily have to be distorted, with this I mean that it is common here to intimately preserve a healthy and precious shyness, essence of a fragrance coming from the deepest part of our soul, and which in the end can only help to be more authentic.

We noticed that you have some theatrical acts, what was your first job in theater?

I have a theatrical pantomime that I am taking around the Italian theaters and in the world, it is called THE JAIL, who is free inside is free everywhere, even in Italian prisons has gone on stage.

However, my first theatrical goes back to when in the distant 80s, I did a small part during a year-end essay at school, I was at the tender age of eight, I remember that experience with sweetness.

Do you think theater is important? Why? 

The theater, above all, today, remains the most important true artistic expression that can tell life from life, comparing through the characters of a story, what we live and are in life, without winks, remembering the values for which we are By observing mistakes, theater is an authentic form of narrative communication, it does not undergo sophistication with ephemeral special effects. Theatre it’s all of us coming from all cultures and backgrounds in every day of our lives.