Original piece is from 1969, freely translated and updated by Teuc. The show was still presented but then there was a retreat.
A piece taken to the scene in 1969, em Coimbra, first oil and then prohibited for the censorship of Estado Novo, will be reissued on Thursday to celebrate, at the Academic Theater of Gil Vicente (YAV), o World Theater Day.
The show “Reenact Now #2: The Island of Slaves (1969 – 2025)” part of the script taken to the scene in 1969, in turn based on the play “The island of slaves“, Created in the eighteenth century by the French playwright Pierre de Marivaux” as a space for confrontation between slaves and bosses, situated somewhere in the universe of ancient Greece, where the inversion of social roles represents an important effort to renew the current order and a reflection on the human condition, “wrote the Tagv, a note sent to the Portuguese agency.
“In the late sixties of the twentieth century, among the smell of gunpowder that intoxicated the students and anticipated April, the text of the French playwright is For the first time presented in Portugalfreely translated and updated by Ticking” [Teatro dos Estudantes da Universidade de Coimbra].
“The nineteenth-century plot, approved by censorship, becomes a Burlesque Complaint of Freedom and Renewal of the Portuguese Theaterwhose main allies were the academic theater groups, ”said the Tagv.
At the time, and After some recitesthe show of Teuc would be prohibited, “Because the censorship also understood that the analysis of the dramatic text was no longer enough to guess the intentions of the respondents”.
This year, the celebration, in Coimbra, of World Theater Day-with a presentation scheduled for Thursday, at 9:30 pm, by the Company Visions Used-brings to the scene a project “whose main objective implies, to Priori, one Impossible condition: Back in time in time”Tagv pointed out.
Quoted in the note, Joana Ferrajão, director of the second edition of “Reenact Now”, noted that she was welcomed “wide -gate” at the opening of Teuc’s archive, “with the generosity and resourcefulness that characterizes the 87 years of history that houses.”
“But I quickly understood that it was necessary to think of the boundaries of an organized room, with properly inventoried and preserved objects. The lost and torn papers, the dust, the moisture of the walls, also told a story”He emphasized.
In the archive, the playwright said she found the script of the “Slave Island”, the production dossier and the Teuc contestation documents to the prohibition of the show.
“Later, I found a video record of and the protagonist of the 1969 show, José Oliveira Barata. From them, I started to think about reconstitution of the show, ”he explained.
The show “Reenact Now” had a first edition in 2023, directed by Carlota Castro, based on the Finei file – International Iberian Expression Festival, namely the play “Iberia Sector 5”, Bonifrates.
“Now it’s Joana Ferraza’s turn to risk … A dive into Teuc’s archive, complaining to the company useful visions for the trip,” said Tagv.
