ORIGENS/ ORIGINS 2007
3 Countries: 4 Playwrights: 7 Deadly Sins
Staged
AUGUSTO BOAL, ARMANDO ROSA,
MENA ABRANTES AND NELSON RODRIGUES
@ Canning House
Punch at the Point of the Knife by Brazilian playwright
Augusto Boal directed by Gael le
Cornec Music by Menino Josue
Tunnel of The Rats by Portuguese
playwright Armando Rosa directed
by
Music
by Leandra Varanda and
The Container by Angolan playwright Mena Abrantes directed by Natascha
Metherell.
Dorotéia by Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues directed by Kwong Loke.
Venue
for all events:
Canning House,
Bookings: [log in to unmask] | 020 7235
2303 (ext 226)
Admission: £5 | £3 members of Canning House
DETAILS:
This
is the third consecutive year that StoneCrabs Theatre is producing
ORIGENS/ORIGINS Playreading Festival. In 2005 the company presented 3 plays by
Nelson Rodrigues in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of
his death. From the Festival the company went on to produce ‘Our Lady of
The Drowned’ (Time Out and Metro Critic’s Choice).
In
2006, we celebrated the ‘Theatre of Resistance’ from
This
year, StoneCrabs Theatre celebrates
“3 Continents, 3 Countries and 4 Playwrights” in an exciting
exchange and unification of dramaturgy of the Portuguese diaspora, encompassing
works from
ORIGENS/ORIGINS 200-7 Deadly Sins explores a
psychological interpretation of the seven deadly sins within the dramaturgy of
writers of the Portuguese language:
Thursday 22nd
November – 7pm Launch Evening
Punching the Point of the Knife by Brazilian playwright
Augusto Boal
directed by Gael le
Cornec.
WITH SPECIAL GUEST:
Menino Josue – who will delight us with his sound of contemporary Brazilian
Music.
Augusto Boal, who was
once labelled a cultural activist by the Brazilian military, was arrested in
1971 and tortured. He was eventually exiled to
The night will be
followed by a reception with wine and nibbles.
Friday
23rd November – 7pm
Tunnel of The Rats by Portuguese
playwright Armando Rosa
directed by
A dark contemporary
fable, the characters play a game of
cat-and-mouse with each other; but it is only when they are all trapped in a
mine-shaft and threatened by starving rats we see different versions of each
character’s life and identities revealed.
Armando Rosa is the most successful new Portuguese playwright to
emerge in the 21st century. He will specially come to the event
from
The evening will be introduced by the Anglo-Brazilian musical
sounds of Leandra Varanda &
Tuesday 27th November – 7pm
Double bill (Abrantes and Rodrigues)
The Container by Angolan playwright Mena Abrantes
directed by Natascha Metherell.
Based on a newspaper article published in Portugal when 3 men who
claimed to be Peter Biko, George Washington and John Mweyin were discovered
fleeing their country in the container of a ship in search of their dreams in
Europe, the play looks at hope, fears and the boundaries created by mankind.
Dorotéia by Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues
directed by Kwong Loke.
Known for his irreverent repertoire of controversial plays,
Rodrigues’ ‘irresponsible
farce’ will close the Festival. Written in 1947 Dorotéia is considered his first surreal
farce – Ugliness is desirous, sex is
sin, beauty is curse, sickness is purification. Dorotéia seeks redemption
for her sin through nausea while her widowed cousins do not sleep for fear of
dreams overriding the conscious repression of fantasy and sexual lust.
A thundering success of his second play Vestido de Noiva (Wedding Dress) made Rodrigues the first
modern playwright in
Canning House