Fourth day of the tour: Palma

It seems easy to be supportive... #1

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How do they laugh in Africa? #2

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Simone, do you want to go to Mozambique? #3

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I am going to Mozambique! But to do what? #4

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The meetings #5

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Where do I start? #6

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Meeting with

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The first contacts with Mozambique #8

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Agenda first mission in Mozambique #9

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First mission: arrival in Maputo #1

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But where am I? #2

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Meeting with Alvim Cossa #3

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Teatro do Oprimido Show #4

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Meeting with the Machaka Association #5

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The Show by the Machaka Group #6

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Manuela Soeiro and the Avenida Theater #7

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Gonçalo Mabunda #8

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Meeting with the Luarte Association #9

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Luarte Show #10

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Maputo - Pemba Journey #11

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Vitor Raposo #12

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Pemba – Palma Trip #13

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Visit to the village of Quionga #14

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Visit to the village of Quirindi #15

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That wonderful beach! #16

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Visit to the village of Pundanhar #17

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The Mamãe Kit #18

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Visit to the hospital in Palma #19

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Return to Italy #20

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The project continues! #1

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How many meetings are we going to have?!? #2

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Agenda second mission in Mozambique #3

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Second mission in Mozambique, arrival at Pemba #4

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Felix Mambucho #5

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Performance Vitor Raposo and the Tambo Tambulani Tambo company #6

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Pemba – Palma Trip #7

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Performances at Palma, on with the casting! No, stop! #8

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Grupo do funzionarios #9

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Performances (and casting) in the village of Pundanhar #10

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Performances (and casting) in the village of Quionga #11

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Selecting the actors for the Italian stages #12

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Are you ready to come to Italy? #13

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The return to Italy and end of the second mission #14

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Preparing for the first training period at Alcatraz #1

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Arrival at the Libera Università di Alcatraz #2

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We begin! #3

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Mario Pirovano #4

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Acting with Mario Pirovano #5

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Arms going up on their own! #6

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A dive into the theatre #7

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Let’s tell a love story! #8

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Being an actor is hard work #9

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What days! #10

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O falso médico! #11

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We all go shopping! #12

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The performance takes shape #13

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We need an ultrasound! #14

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Rome has never been so beautiful! #15

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Second training session: the first day... #1

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The return of the Mozambicans #2

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A tragic day #3

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Memory tests with Mario Pirovano #4

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Rehearsals, rehearsals, rehearsals… and that script in 3 languages… #5

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First reading of the script in Swahili #6

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Just for a change, we rehearse... #7

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That damned video! #8

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In and around Perugia #9

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The last rehearsals #10

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Action! #11

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Changes to the show? Change the title?!? #1

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Confusion in Fatima’s House #2

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Preparation of the stage design #3

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Ready to go (again)? #1

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Arrival at Pemba #2

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At Palma under the palm trees (wet!) #3

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First day of the tour: Mute #4

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Second day of the tour: Pundanhar #5

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Third day of the tour: Quionga #6

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Fourth day of the tour: Palma #7

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Fifth day of the tour: Olumbe #8

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Thank you Mozambique, thank you so much! #9

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Today is a special day. Excluding Felix and Arlete, all the others: Ana Bela, Safina, the two Adelinos, Agostinho, are all from Palma. And today they will be acting in Palma, their home.

I’m worried about how nervous they’ll be, I tell them the audience will be there for them, it won’t be hostile, won’t judge, the people will have come just to enjoy the performance that has been talked about so much.

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Today, together with Eni, there was also a press conference and Adelino (Cuba) took part, too!

I let them eat while I prepare the scenery. I tell Felix to give them a little “motivaçao”, even though I don’t even know if the work exists in Portuguese. But Felix understands.

Well, this even there were less enthusiastic tones, the performance went well but 1,000/1,500 people in the audience were missing.

I thought that Palma, the biggest centre in the area, would have brought 2,000 people, instead only 500 came, maybe 600. Even the actors realised, Adelino Cuba started called for people from the microphone, Oliviero (at the speakers) played music. We wanted to fill that square, Palma’s central square, but today we didn’t.

The 600 people that were present, though, enjoyed themselves, they laughed, no-one left.

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I take this occasion to note something: in these areas of Mozambique, in the northern villages, audiences don’t applaud.

One of the group told me that here no-one claps, the sign that your presentation is being appreciated is the fact that no-one leaves and no-one talks badly. And until now, none of them have happened.

Tomorrow Olumbe, the last performance.

Today’s heroine is Arlete. She’s from Maputo, she doesn’t speak Swahili but she’s an actress and during these last months, and in Italy too, she was a fundamental support for the other actresses, Ana Bela and Safina. Arlete plays the part of the obstetrician, and she memorised the lines in Swahili. She’s a good actress, she smiles, she’s delicate, elegant, she accompanies the two women during the ultrasound and helps the “real” doctor of the performance. She uses few words, but uses them well.

You need courage to expose yourself like this, and she has all my respect.