‘Women Here and Now’ at the Brazil-Mozambique Cultural Centre in Maputo
Theater – The Slave Island
3:29 CAT | 12 August 2019
Theater – The Slave Island
Date and Time: Friday, August 23 2019 at 20h00
Entrance: 250 MZN and 150 MZN (for cultural club members)
Address: Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Av. Samora Machel no. 468, Maputo
About the play
It is a play written by the French playwright Pierre de Marivaux, also known as Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Maria, who was also a journalist and novelist. Marivaux is considered by some to be the French master of wearing a mask and lying. The main instrument of lies, language is also a mask behind which characters are hidden. "Slave Island" is a utopian comedy. Four shipwreck survivors approach an island where current laws imply drastic behavioral changes. Amos and servants reverse their roles and after proving adaptation to a new social order, can thus regain freedom and resume the journey back to their places of origin.
A comedy steeped in “morality” that surprises for its sharp current. The author, between irony and sarcasm, seems to choose love as the right therapy for men to establish new relationships with each other and thus improve their behavior.
"Slave Island" is a metaphor that reveals to us a utopian place as a harbinger of a humanized, tolerant and supportive world, quite different from what is presented to us today.
Original Text: Pierre de Marivaux
Direction and Staging: Gigliola Zacara
Co-staging: Fernando Macamo
Interpretation: António Sitoi, Américo Sotó, Cesaria Vuende, Daniel Banze, Fernando Macamo and Gigliola Zacara
Music: Mbalango and Célia Madime
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