It is a production about a language that is simultaneously both desperate and powerful. Symbols, words and marks that are written and erased, a need for communication that insists on being inscribed on the streets. At its centre is a contradiction: something illegal that nonetheless functions as the daily confession of a community. At a time like this, when everything is becoming subject to more and more rigid control, the play explores an activity that stands up to this dystopia.

Poetry is on the streets tells the stories of a group of graffiti artists who are prosecuted for what they do but continue to search for a world that has value beyond the narrow confines of CVs and career paths. It offers multiple readings of this collective diary, following those who write and paint compulsively, although the marks they leave often exist only for a short time. Their graffiti offer a different way of understanding the city: through what appears, is erased, and then returns.

The walls have their own stories to tell, which often eschew official narratives and remain defiantly outside the law; and that is precisely where we need to listen to what remains, what fades and what keeps reappearing.