The Barraca in Almada with From Mary to Mary
The Lisbon company, A Barraca, opens the TMJB’s theatre program with a text by Paloma Pedrero: From Mary to Mary, performed by Rita Lello, and directed by Maria do Céu Guerra.
The show will be on display at TMJB on January 18th and 19th, Saturday, at 9 pm, and Sunday, at 4 pm.
From Mary to Mary is a monologue created by Spanish actress, director and playwright Paloma Pedrero (b. 1957), which fictionalizes the last hours of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97), a woman of bold, even revolutionary conceptions (e.g. in the field of female emancipation), for her time, and mother of the famous writer Mary Shelley (1797-1851). Pedrero’s text starts from the circumstance that Mary (mother) died 11 days after the birth of Mary (daughter), as a result of complications that occurred during childbirth. From there, and from the biography and public (and published) convictions of the historical figure Mary Wollstonecraft, imagine a conversation (one-way), which could also be a letter, a written will, or some ‘final provisions’ from the mother to her newborn daughter, as if there and in that way she left instilled in the daughter’s mind the woman she should become, that she should come to be. Mary to Mary (original title) was written in the year 2000 and, according to Pedrero, is part of his desire to “create guerrilla theatre”. This creation by A Barraca won the Audience Award for Best Show at the Litoral Em Cena 2023 Festival.
Actress, director and playwright, Paloma Pedrero (b. Madrid, 1957) was a co-founder in 1978 of the Cachivache group, for which she wrote several plays. In 1985 he founded his own company, Teatro del Alma, which was followed by the organization Caídos del Cielo, dedicated to supporting, through theatre, people at risk of social exclusion. Awarded for her play La llamada de Lauren in 1987, she has already written more than thirty plays, making her one of the most performed playwrights in Spain. Its debut in Portugal took place in 2004, at the Almada Festival, where Útero presented Cachorros de negro mirar, directed by Miguel Moreira.
From Mary to Mary (Experimental Room, January 18 and 19, 2025, Saturday at 9 pm, Sunday at 4 pm) PG-13 | 1h15 | Price: between 9.10€ and 13€ (Friends Club: 6.50€)
- Text by Paloma Pedrero
- Translation Rita Lello
- Board of Directors Maria of Heaven Guerra
- Dramaturgy Maria do Céu Guerra, Rita Lello
- Costume by Marta Iria
- Light Design by Vasco Letria
- Interpretation Rita Lello
- Image Credits Ricardo Rodrigues, Gisela Benjamim
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