Resgate (‘Ransom’), by Armando Nascimento Rosa, puts the banking corruption as the axis that articulates the dramatic action. The kidnapping of a banker and his secretary triggers a speech in which the urgent need of the individual meets with the big financial interests. No reconciliation is possible. Nascimento mixes farce with political theatre, in a play in which the urgency and seriousness of the approaches of the characters coexist with the comic unreality of the moment.
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Autor
Armando Nascimento Rosa Award-winning Portuguese playwright (Ribeiro da Fonte Revelation Theatre Award in 2000; Albufeira Prize for Drama in 2008; Bernardo Santareno National Theatre Award, in 2011, etc), is the author of more than 20 original plays, most of them published and translated into different languages with full productions and/or staged readings in cities of Europe and America. Since 1998, Armando (Ph.D in Dramatic Literature) has been a professor at Lisbon’s Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon’s Faculty of Dramatic Arts and Film). He is also a singer/composer now engaged in the project O Piano em Pessoa / A Piano in Pessoa, which turns into music poems by multilingual modernist author Fernando Pessoa, a show he premiered October 2012 in Spain, with pianist António Neves da Silva, at The University of Barcelona. |
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DirectoraAdeline Flaun
Director, actress and broadcaster. Born in Martinique (French Caribbean), arrived in Barcelona after a while in Lille (France) where she founded her first company. She studied performance at Moveo and Javier Galitó-Cava, among others, and followed workshops at the Obrador-Sala Beckett (Victoria Spuntzberg Davide Carnivale…). Work with directors like Frederic Roda, Josep Pere Peyró, Angels Aymar, Nicolás Rivera, Quique Culebras Javier Galitó-Cava, among others. She creates the company ALMARADAS with which works with texts engaged with society: El soroll dels ossos quan cruixen, Moi, Edouard Denan, Umbral, El Ausente. |
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ActorsIldefons Vilanova
Sonia Espinosa Toni Climent Salva Soler Translator Pau Segalés (Instituto Camões de Barcelona) |