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HALF BODY . 2015

MEIO CORPO

a show by RICARDO PAIS | free version of Igual ao Mundo by JACINTO LUCAS PIRES | by ENSEMBLE – SOCIEDADE DE ACTORES

Directed by Ricardo Pais

Set design Pedro Tudela

Music Ricardo Pinto

Lighting design Rui Simão

Costumes Bernardo Monteiro

Sound design Joel Azevedo

Assistant director Manuel Tur

Performed by Emília Silvestre, Jorge Pinto, João Castro, Luís Araújo, Simão Do Vale, António Parra and Ricardo Pinto

Co-production Ensemble, CCB Foundation, São João National Theatre and Viriato Theatre

Meio Corpo is the name of the new production by the Ensemble – Sociedade de Atores. After their collaboration on Hamlet (a play that premiered at Teatro Viriato in 2002), the company and the director are exploring Meio Corpo as “an amusement” or, to sound a little more French, a “heterotopia”, only possible with a cast and director who have crossed paths in many other works.

Created from a play initially commissioned by the Ensemble from Jacinto Lucas Pires, this show is a new scenic adventure based on Ricardo Pais’ free version of the commissioned original. A dream is staged that is both old-fashioned and high-tech: between the words “glued to the skin” that a mysterious Big Sister tries to leave no room for any discretion and the presumptions of a literature stolen from everyone’s imagination by an Author-event-manager-and-animator-of-writings, a game of metaphysical bitch-blindness and permissiveness is played, in a “Cocktail” with obligatory dark clothes, grand piano, techno music and other special effects. As João Carneiro wrote in the Expresso newspaper at the time of the premiere at the CCB, “Based on a text by Jacinto Lucas Pires, Ricardo Pais and the Ensemble have created a parable about the truth of art”.

It was on stage at the Teatro Carlos Alberto, in Porto, between September 18 and October 4 and will next be performed at the Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, in Coimbra, on October 22.

Cena da peça Meio corpo, interpretada por Luis Araujo.
CORIOLANO . 2015