Bella Figura
Event
Is that the Polar Star that you see?… Why is it below Ursa Major?…
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, the Rolling Stones and Nuno Cardoso tell us, who chose this song as a kind of synthesis of his staging of Bella Figura by Yasmina Reza. On a spring night, five characters cross paths in a restaurant car park. The promise of a romantic dinner and a birthday party turns into an “evening of nerves”, fuelled by hypocrisy and lies. The art of conversation by the French playwright, where the comic and the fierce, the ridiculous and the grotesque live side by side, leads to a gradual stripping of these aimless characters, which Nuno Cardoso decides to assume on stage, stressing the loneliness and fragility of the bodies. Bella Figura was his last staging together with Ao Cabo Teatro, before assuming the artistic direction of Teatro Nacional São João. In late 2019, in a house’s production, TNSJ took this play to Almada, Madrid, and Mindelo (Festival Mindelact) and Praia, in Cape Verde.
We now take it to our virtual room, in a video recording available on demand, until February 21st, directed by Fábio Coelho.
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, the Rolling Stones and Nuno Cardoso tell us, who chose this song as a kind of synthesis of his staging of Bella Figura by Yasmina Reza. On a spring night, five characters cross paths in a restaurant car park. The promise of a romantic dinner and a birthday party turns into an “evening of nerves”, fuelled by hypocrisy and lies. The art of conversation by the French playwright, where the comic and the fierce, the ridiculous and the grotesque live side by side, leads to a gradual stripping of these aimless characters, which Nuno Cardoso decides to assume on stage, stressing the loneliness and fragility of the bodies. Bella Figura was his last staging together with Ao Cabo Teatro, before assuming the artistic direction of Teatro Nacional São João. In late 2019, in a house’s production, TNSJ took this play to Almada, Madrid, and Mindelo (Festival Mindelact) and Praia, in Cape Verde.
We now take it to our virtual room, in a video recording available on demand, until February 21st, directed by Fábio Coelho.
