Second day of the tour: Pundanhar

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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1,000 people! ONE THOUSANDDDDDDD!!!

If yesterday was WOW, today was…today was a great success! The performance was wonderful, everyone acted well, Felix and I dismantled the whole structure but everything went well. Lots of people in the audience enjoyed themselves, you could feel, see, touch the energy.

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Gosh, how can I describe the sensation? At a certain point we were all so involved with the story, the scenes were no longer theatre, they became real. Yes, for a few moments the theatre was so perfect that it mixed with reality.

And the audience laughed. This performance is funny in Italian, in Portuguese, in Swahili, we Italians don’t understand a word of Swahili but we laugh when they laugh. It’s magic, pure magic.

Second impeccable change of scenery, in addition to the assembly is the work that I have to do during the performance. The ropes are pulled by two people, I’m in the centre holding the backdrop and I have to flip it behind, making the second backdrop appear, the one showing the hospital room.

I’ve got less than a minute to do this, the time for a pair of lines from the narrator. Even this time it went. And there’s two!

To the eyes of the people from the villages of Mozambique, we must seem really strange. A theatre company where the whites have to change the scenery. I think it’s the first time…

The actors are all Mozambican, the technicians and video troupe are all white. And when the performance finishes the black people eat, the white people dismantle everything  and collect the paper. And they sweating a lot.

I honour the courage of Adelino Gonçalves, known as Cuba, who today carried the show with gestures, movements, even when he didn’t have any lines. When Adelino Cuba enters the stage, the performance takes off!

Tomorrow Quionga!

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In the photos and in the next pages of the diary, you can admire the actors on stage and the audience! See the colours?