Professor and playwright, Joseph Danan accepted the challenge of the Caldas da Rainha-based company to “stage his own text, in a work of complicity, more commentary and less directive,” the director of the Teatro da Rainha, Fernando Mora, told Lusa. . Ramos, who in this work assumes the role of an actor to play the role of God.
An experience that the French playwright had already done for years with a Mexican company and that the Teatro da Rainha is doing for the first time in the city where “Police Machine” will premiere on November 3 and the public will be able to see the “unexpected” result. of this association between the author and the actors of the work.
On stage, the story of a radio announcer who reveals a case of parricide “in a spectacular way, which gives rise to a spiral of violence of which he himself is a victim”, summarizes the company, which adds that “three grown-ups sexually abuse on the street” and who is later taken in by a prostitute with whom he maintains a friendly relationship.
“The big ones are back on stage now disguised as policemen” and, in the play’s introductory text, the behavior “of both is very similar: the same violence.”
At the end, two strange figures appear: a boy who steals and God, in the figure of a beggar.
The work, however, has the particularity of having “all the male figures played by actresses”, the result of another challenge launched by the company to the playwright and accepted by Joseph Danan who, as director, accompanied the work of “a kind of group of women to represent sexist violence”, explained Fernando Mora Ramos.
The female performance will be led by Beatriz Antunes, Mafalda Taveira and Marta Taveira, who will be joined on stage by Fábio Costa, Fernando Mora Ramos and Nuno Machado.
The text, written and performed by Joseph Danan, was translated by Isabel Lopes.
The work, the company’s last production this year, opens on November 3, at the Sala Estúdio do Teatro da Rainha, where it can be seen from Wednesday to Saturday, always at 9:30 p.m., until November 26.
Until then, the company continues with the cycle “Diga 33 — Poesia no Teatro” which this month proposes a meeting with the poet António Ferra and, on the 30th, a concert with Tiago da Neta, entitled “songs without words and dances without steps ”. ”.
Teatro da Rainha is a company based in Caldas da Rainha that, for almost two decades, has produced shows both in this city and in Évora, Coimbra, Lisbon and Porto.
It currently has a new headquarters under construction, designed to delve into practices of creation, experimentation and training.
Source: Observadora
