Rigodon in Roma.
Every morning, around the coliseum, a theatre play is organizing itself.
A real-life play.
Fake Roman centurions prepare their costumes. Souvenir, drinks and T-shirts merchants set up their stalls.
Illegal vendors check the weather forecasts and prepare themselves to sell sun hats or umbrellas.
Policemen, in uniform or dressed as civilians are getting ready to chase the illegal vendors, either on foot or in cars.
Unofficial guides prepare their sales pitches.
Then the tourists arrive and everything begins.
Policemen run after illegal vendors trying to sell their wares to tourists.
The tourists try to avoid the unofficial guides, whilst buying water bottles as expensive as Chianti.
Then the coliseum’s surroundings look like a big ballet where each actor is repeating, playing, and dancing.
This is the extraordinary ballet of life.
