Street Entertainer, Covent Garden, London 1984
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This 1984 view captures Covent Garden in its revived street-performance era, with a lone guitarist entertaining a small seated crowd on the cobbles beneath large painted signs for Covent Garden Street Theatre. The backdrop is full of period detail, advertising theatre groups, comedians, clowns, jugglers, acrobats, magicians, musicians, dancers and mimes, while the open guitar case in the foreground waits for coins from passers-by. The unfinished-looking hoardings and scaffolding behind give the scene a distinctly transitional feel, reflecting Covent Garden in the years after the old fruit and vegetable market closed, when the area was being reshaped into the performance, shopping and visitor destination it became. It is a strong record of the informal entertainment culture that helped define Covent Garden in the 1980s, when buskers and street acts were becoming as much a draw as the architecture itself.
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