In a collective imaginary in which black people are privileged, Othello is a white man who aspires a place of privilege. Power and ownership of the law, physical and intellectual superiority, prejudices and fear, prevent the privileged from facilitating this approximation. With a contemporary and reinvented narrative, the characters of Shakespeare’s classic remain but what they represent is inverted. If it were the other way around, what would it be?
© Joana Calejo Pires
© Joana Calejo Pires
© Joana Calejo Pires
© Joana Calejo Pires
© Joana Calejo Pires
© Joana Calejo Pires
Credits
Script, staging and project direction
Lara Mesquita
Performers
Ana Amaral, Catarina Amaral, Daniel Moutinho, Júlio Mesquita, Manuela Paulo, Pedro Nuno
Art direction
da Bernarda
Light design and operation
Diana dos Santos
Sound and video operation
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Original music
Eu.CLIDES
Communication Coordination
Sofia Pancada
Graphic Design
David Francisco
Executive Production
Thalita Araújo
Production Assistance
Matilde Jalles
Production
PARROTRECORD – Associação Cultural
Co-Production
Bolsa de Criação O Espaço do Tempo, com o apoio do BPI e da Fundação “la Caixa”
Support
Direcção Geral das Artes, Fundação GDA
Lara Vanessa Cossa Mesquita, Lisbon 1986.
She inherits Mozambique from her mother and the island of Pico from her father. She grew up in Barreiro, where she studied science in secondary school. She attended undergraduate courses in Psychology (ISPA – 2005) and Law (Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa – 2007/09).
In 2009 she moved to Lisbon. The following year she finishes the training course for actors at In Impetus. She has a degree in Theater – Branch Actors, by Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (2016). She has been working as an actress since 2012. She highlights her collaboration in cinema with Tiago Guedes, in theater with Luís Miguel Cintra, Griot and Rodrigo Francisco.
In 2021, she debuted her first authorial creation Sempre que Acordo. The homonymous text that she wrote for this show earned her the New Dramaturgy Award for Female Authorship.
She is the artistic director of PARROTRECORD, a cultural association founded in April 2022.