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If there is an ocidental literary canon, the center is Shakespeare. He teaches us to speak with ourselves, who says it is Harold Bloom, who further wonders: Does fiction more convincing and simultaneously literary exist? Convincing? I'm sorry Mr. Bloom, but here stands our problem with King Lear. How can it be believable that Cordelia, Lear's youngest daughter, should be expelled, dowryless, from the kingdom, for refusing to put her love for her father to words?

The show proposes a colective reading of King Lear, armed with many a doubt that plagues us when reading a classic, expecting each person to start talking to themselves: not madly out loud, like the protagonist, but as if it was a conversation.

Credits

Creation
Alice Azevedo, Cristina Carvalhal, Sandra Faleiro

Dramaturgy and Interpretation
Alice Azevedo, Cristina Carvalhal

Sound
Sérgio Delgado

Executive Production
Beatriz Cuba, Margarida Zeferino

Production
Causas Comuns

Co-production in Residency
O Espaço do Tempo

Alice Azevedo (1996) was born and is based in Lisbon, Portugal. She has a bachelor’s in Performing Arts by the University of Lisbon, and a postgraduate in Aesthetics and Performing Arts by NOVA FCSH. She recently premiered the transaptation “Modern, I Promise - from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”. Her recent creations include the identitary hit “If you ain’t a Lesbian, what’s your name?” (2024), the shipwrecked anti-epic-(not-really-a)-poem “Nau Nau Maria” (2023), and the historical performative reading “Sodom’s Literature, but also Sapho’s, if you don’t mind” (2022). She used to clean Airbnb’s for tourists and has worked in a call-center.

Cristina Carvalhal graduated in Theater-Education (ESTC) in 1986, works as an actor in theater, cinema and television. Winner of the Theater Revelation award-1989 and the Female Interpretation award-1993 (Jornal Sete). Is the artistic director of the theater structure Causas Comuns since 2011. Director of the shows A Portuguese Family, presented in Turku European Capital of Culture 2011, and God's Ear: A Play (which won the Best Theater Show Award in 2010 from the Portuguese Author's Society). Co-founder of the theather company School of Women (1995). Directed the movie Empty Closets, adapted from M. Judite de carvalho, Ukbar Filmes/RTP (2022).

Alice Azevedo, Cristina Carvalhal, Sandra Faleiro / Causas Comuns (PT)

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