Próspero
Event
Coliseu Porto Ageas reopens its doors with "Próspero". «
Based on "The Tempest", "Titus Andronicus" and "King Lear", by William Shakespeare, Pedro Galiza and Jorge Pinto created a solo. First of all, the notion of a solo. The concept of a single actor facing an audience, using, almost exclusively, himself, his body and his voice, first tools in the exercise of theatrical significance that is set in motion and that, beyond the text, operate continuously on the viewer.
"The Tempest" encloses, between the lines of its verses, a symbolic farewell, a last bow and, loosening the text, it allows the figure of Próspero to be drawn as a reflection of the author himself, a character made man made metaphor, a figure that lets himself go on the pages and on stage, perhaps in the process of extrospection, crowning himself on stage, through a fictionalised biography, a life that is worthy of celebration.
A scenographic structure with a monumental presence, inspired by one of the Jardins de Acrílico by the painter and sculptor José Rodrigues, is a space that is limited, a somewhat claustrophobic interpretation of the lost island of Próspero, but, nevertheless, a space that, when imprisoning the character, frees the actor.
Based on "The Tempest", "Titus Andronicus" and "King Lear", by William Shakespeare, Pedro Galiza and Jorge Pinto created a solo. First of all, the notion of a solo. The concept of a single actor facing an audience, using, almost exclusively, himself, his body and his voice, first tools in the exercise of theatrical significance that is set in motion and that, beyond the text, operate continuously on the viewer.
"The Tempest" encloses, between the lines of its verses, a symbolic farewell, a last bow and, loosening the text, it allows the figure of Próspero to be drawn as a reflection of the author himself, a character made man made metaphor, a figure that lets himself go on the pages and on stage, perhaps in the process of extrospection, crowning himself on stage, through a fictionalised biography, a life that is worthy of celebration.
A scenographic structure with a monumental presence, inspired by one of the Jardins de Acrílico by the painter and sculptor José Rodrigues, is a space that is limited, a somewhat claustrophobic interpretation of the lost island of Próspero, but, nevertheless, a space that, when imprisoning the character, frees the actor.
