Category: Theater
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The unrepeatable moment
Theater happens only once. Even when it repeats, it's never the same. Here I write about theater as a living presence: the spoken word, the body on stage, the silence of the room. The stage as a place of risk, of exposure, and of encounter. Theater exists in the instant. To write about it is to try to capture what, by nature,…
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The Father | The Fear of Knowing, the Cross of Doubting
“"He who fears suffering already suffers what he fears." Michel de Montaigne ©Teatro Nacional São João What would be more terrible: discovering that your greatest fear was real or spending your life with the possibility that it was? In August Strindberg's The Father, the question takes the form of an intimate and devastating suspicion. Adolfo,…
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Avoid | Why Don't You Cry for Me?
“Instead of a government, we had a stage.” Che, Evita, Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber. Eva Perón died at thirty-three, but age had long ceased to be a sufficient measure to tell her life story. In just a few years, Eva Duarte traversed a distance that cannot be measured in kilometers between…
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The Mousetrap | Brief as Eternity
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on… our life is shrouded in a sleep.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I, translated by Fernando Pessoa. Time has a particular cruelty: it passes through everything, but not in the same way through all things. It ages bodies, erases places, transforms memories and, strangely, spares…