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The Pornographic Angel
In collaboration with Lord Strange
The Pornographic Angel performances:
July 9-15th,
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From the director "It was not lightly that Brazilian playwright, fiction writer, chronicler, and journalist Nelson Rodrigues called himself a "pornographic angel..." In spite of describing his dramatic work as an "unpleasant theatre," Rodrigues elegant and poetic language earned him the place of Brazil's most acclaimed playwright to date...The Pornographic Angel takes as its point of departure a small selection of these wonderful short stories. As strange puzzle pieces, together they unravel Rodrigues' troubled psychological world, the innermost shames and desires of Rio de Janeiro's middle class in the 1950s and 1960s; they are also, and nonetheless, fragments of what could be any audience member's most feared nightmares. A quotidian event, a simple gesture, a missed look, an unreturned kindness, or the turn of the page; unsuspected events that leave his characters astonished as they wrestle with this most damned angel: passion gone wrong...We invite you, too, to look through the keyhole; The Pornographic Angel is all but a glance, a fortuitous incursion into the silent and irreparable moment of loss, a bitter and yet irresistible look into life as it is."
Tantrum Theatre - www.tantrumtheater.org The mission of Tantrum Theater is to investigate performance craft through long-term research and collaboration among artists in different areas of theater-making. Performance projects are created by drawing from a variety of narrative genres with interest in how sound, movement, and visual elements can create a theatrical experience that is both personal and collective. By emphasizing physical and vocal training, Tantrum Theater's work is meant to stimulate both the artist's and the spectator's understanding of what theatre can be. Tantrum Theater can be reached at info@tantrumtheater.org
Five Kinds of Silence “Five Kinds of Silence” by Shelagh Stephenson, won the 1996 Writers Guild Award for Best Original Radio Play and the 1997 Sony Award for Best Original Drama in the United Kingdom. The highly acclaimed stage version of this play tells the story of a family in which control has become the driving force, where everything has its place, and where there are only rules, duties and punishments. “Five Kinds of Silence begins with a murder, but this is no whodunit, for we see the killers and the killing. Nor is it a "why did they do it?" for we know from the first speech that the victim, Billy, is a wife-beater and it is soon revealed that he physically and sexually abused his two daughters, Janet and Susan, for a period of decades, not just years. What the play does is to look at the effects on the abused and, through a series of set piece speeches (one immediately before and the others after death), the motivation of the abuser”. HTTP://WWW.BRITISHTHEATREGUIDE.INFO/ARTICLES/040600C.HTM
Future Projects Film “Wake” – Pre-Production as Director
The unfound trauma of birth, shocks us into
a lifelong search for someone to take over from the initial separation.
Theatre "Withnail & I," as Uncle Monty. What's done Film & TV
Television
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