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You don’t want to miss ‘O Casal Palavrakis’ @ Teatro Avenida, Maputo – on their last two evenings on stage together… for now
3:33 CAT | 26 August 2024
You don’t want to miss ‘O Casal Palavrakis’ @ Teatro Avenida, Maputo – on their last two evenings on stage together… for now
Theatre has returned to Teatro Avenida this week, with the drama "O Casal Palavrakis – Os Leprosos", by Spanish playwright Angélica Liddell, adapted and directed by Venâncio Calisto, and performed by actors Adelium Castelo and Lizha Fox.
The piece premiered on Saturday (24th of August) at Avenida and will be on stage on the 29th (Thursday) and 31st of August (Saturday), always at 6 p.m. . Teatro Avenida is located in Maputo's Baixa, on 1179 Av. 25 de Setembro.
'El Matrimonio Palavrakis' tells of the turbulent married life of Elsa and Matteo. Both were victims of abuse in childhood and live for each other, especially after their daughter was murdered. They face the cruelty of the world and the repeated trauma of the abyss.
In this mise-en-scene, Venâncio Calisto challenges himself to establish a narrative that dialogues with the current Mozambican reality and universal issues present in a contemporary drama whose strength lies in delineating the human condition.
The piece marks the debut in Mozambique of the Movimento de Teatro da Experimentação dos Sentidos (TES), a multidisciplinary artistic collective that emerged in response to the problem of hunger in a world in constant convalescence. It was created in 2020 at the height of the Covid pandemic by a collective of multidisciplinary artists from different parts of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP).
The presentation in Maputo marks a step towards a tour that the play is intended to take around the country and the world. The show may reach the cities of Chimoio, Beira and Nampula in September, and is also scheduled to be shown in Cape Verde in November.
About Venâncio Calisto
Venâncio Calisto was born on July 8, 1993. He is a Mozambican actor, director and playwright. He graduated in Theatre from the School of Communication and Arts of Eduardo Mondlane University and has a Master's degree in Theatre, specialising in Theatre and Community from the School of Theatre and Cinema, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon.
With a theatrical career that spans Mozambique, Brazil, Italy, France and Portugal, he dedicates himself to directing and writing for the stage rooted in experimental theatre and collective creation. He is the founder and artistic director of the Theatre Movement of Experimentation of the Senses. He collaborated with the Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, in the creation of the play Viagem Por Mim Terra as part of the Odisseia Nacional (2023). He was assistant director of the show As Areias do Imperador by Mia Couto, directed by Victor de Oliveira (2023). He interned at the Odéon Theatre in Paris and at the Avignon Festival as a stage assistant in La Cerisaie by Anton Chekhov, directed by Tiago Rodrigues (2021).
Among his published books are: Theatre – Behind the Horizon (Author’s edition, 2023); Inside the Void (Húmus Editions, 2022); The Crying Bowl or The Story of the Stones that Speak (Author’s edition, 2020, Húmus, 2021, Exclamação, 2023 and Cavalo do Mar, 2023); The Baobab and the Greed of Mr. Hyena (Children’s and young adults, Fundza, 2021); The Village of the Magic Cashew Trees; The Craftsman and the Juggling Monkeys; and The Dog, the Hare and the Bird (AIDGLOBAL's Read to Begin collection, 2022).
His work is also included in the anthologies Tales and Chronicles to Read at Home – Volume I (Literatas, 2020), and Idai – Marks in Verse and Prose (Gala Gala Edições, 2020).
In 2018, he was awarded the Mozal Arts and Culture Prize in the Theatre Category, and came first in the Ponte Maputo-Ka Tembe Poetry Competition promoted by the German Mozambican Cultural Centre (CCMA).
He is currently a professor of Dramaturgy at the School of Communication and Arts at Eduardo Mondlane University, in Maputo.
Source: Notícias
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