Teatro do Oprimido Show

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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immagine periferia

The outskirts of Maputo, getting there by car we see the city change as we move from the central areas, where there are buildings and banks, to the outskirts, where we see sheet metal shacks and vegetable garden along the brook … but is that a brook or the sewer system?

I utter the phrase of the day: “On the outskirts the city turns into a village again, the way of life changes completely.”

I have made a great impression!

Now silence, it’s show time.

It is dark night! We say goodbye to Alvim, thank the actors one by one. They acted two stories for us, in the first one a public servant makes fun of the people, collecting their requests and then ignoring them, the second one told the story of a girl who gets pregnant, she hangs out in bad company and becomes a prostitute.

The actors were wonderful, the show had been set up only for us, with traditional music. Live, of course.

Yet, in the heat of the moment, I have the impression that everything is pretty worked-out and planned. I did not see sparks, sparkles  of creativity or dramatic turns of events. Perhaps it lacked a bit of emotion that is given by the audience who, in this type of theater, plays an active role in the performance.

I would have liked  to have the opportunity to see the two stories performed with stalls full of people to whom they were addressed to. That night they were acting for a group of white people and the show was unbalanced and a bit impersonal.

Daily Portuguese lesson: Obrigado! (Thanks!) De nada! (You’re welcome), Desculpa! (I apologize).

Oh, I almost forgot: papel higiênico, toilet paper!