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Water and Death (in development)
Co-Director A public bench, by the beach in a small town. Everyday, a young boy sits on it. He hates the sea, it rains all the time, the waves frighten him, it smells like death. But he sits there everyday, so one day his name will sit in an inscription: “in memory of”. In his…
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Eurydice
Director The original Greek myth behind Sarah Ruhl’s 2004 play Eurydice sings the tale of Orpheus, who loved Eurydice so much he could defy Death, who loved her so much he could never save her. Ruhl’s work, as we come to find out, is less about two doomed lovers, and more about a girl, her…
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HEAVEN IS OTHER PEOPLE
Devising Director and Playwright HEAVEN IS OTHER PEOPLE is an original short piece, devised in collaboration with the performers, in response to plastic artist Mladen Stilinovic’s work An Artist Who Cannot Speak English Is No Artist, and the director’s provocation “What do you conform to, to exist?”. The script organises the material generated through weeks…
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amelia
Assistant Director to Claire O’Reilly One morning, something flies into the window of a house in the west of Ireland, bringing chaos to a small family living there. On the edge of an ocean, in a world full of weather forecasts and seed arks, four characters reach into possibility, into new dreams of living. amelia…
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Il Guarany
Assistant Director to Cibele Forjaz Il Guarany (The Guarani), adapted in 1870 from the 1857 namesake novel, is to date the most famous Brazilian opera, played in the inauguration of the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo. The narrative presents us with a Guarany indigenous hero, Peri, and a young Portuguese girl, Ceci, whose unexpected love…
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De Portas Fechadas
Director De Portas Fechadas (Behind Closed Doors) revisits the play No Exit (1944), written by Jean-Paul Sartre, and, through a two-years long research of the playtext and Sartre’s philosophy, enacts an original staging upon the material, proposes a new spatial interpretation of the hell Garcin, Inés and Estelle find themselves in. The aesthetic of the…
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Ordinário – 2 Atores em 5x Sem Juros
Ordinário – Dois Atores em 5x Sem Juros (Ordinary – Two Actors in 5 Instalments Without Interest) is an original play, developed through a devising process into playtext, exploring the myth of success in the Brazilian middle class. A year-long research of Laughter by Henri Bergson and O Brasil É Bom (Brasil Is Good) by…
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Estação#3_EMBORAR
Assistant Director to Cibele Forjaz A Morte da Estrela (The Death of the Star) is a triptych production, made up by Estação#1_Lembre-se de Mim (Station#1_REMEMBER ME), directed by Natália Malo; Estação#2_DEVIR O QUÊ? (Station#2_COME TO BE WHAT?), directed by Lu Favoretto; and Estação#3_EMBORAR (Station#3_AWAYING), directed by Cibele Forjaz. Collectively developed and with playtext by Cláudia…