Another premiere at the Almada Festival: Winds of the Apocalypse
July 7
On Friday, the 7th, the Almada Festival starts at 6 pm, on the Esplanade of the D. António da Costa School. It is the Colloquium on the Esplanade with Joana Craveiro, author, and director of What we heard, presented the night before. The colloquium is moderated by Rui Pina Coelho.
A little later, at 8 pm, on the Esplanada Stage, there is Music on the Esplanada with Cremilda Medina. The concert is free admission. At 9.30 pm, four shows in four different spaces in Almada: The Forum Romeu Correia presents this year’s Show of Honor, I am my own Wife, by Doug Wright, staged by Carlos Avilez; at Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite, Calvário, the new creation of Companhia de Teatro de Almada continues on stage; Incrível Almadense presents Jogging, with text, conception, and interpretation by the Lebanese Hanane Hajj Ali. Directed by Éric Deniaud; at the Cine-Teatro da Academia Almadense there will be another premiere: Ventos do apocalypse, with text and staging by Noé João based on the homonymous work by Paulina Chiziane. The show results from the collaboration between Teatro Griot and Artistas Unidos.
Ventos do apocalipse, published in 1993 and set against the background of the Mozambican civil war, addresses concepts such as destruction, misery, suffering, hatred, superstition and death. For Angolan director Noé João, it is important to address “the issue of memory, reflected in the actor’s body and expression. Each scene, each moment, takes us to a place of memory, be it war, suffering or humiliation. This memory space is also a way of proposing the audience’s interaction with the show”. Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane (b. 1955) was the first woman in her country to publish a novel.
With Balada de amor ao vento, which he published in 1990 on the theme of polygamy, he began a career that currently has more than ten published works, for which he received the José Craveirinha Prize for Literature (2003), the degree of Grand Official of Order of Infante D. Henrique (2013) and the Camões Prize (2021). Among the books he published are, among others: The Seventh Oath, The Swallows, The Joyful Song of the Partridge, In the Hand of God, For Whom the Drums of the Beyond Vibrate, and The Song of the Enslaved.
Winds of the Apocalypse (Osvaldo Azinheira Auditorium at the Cine-Teatro da Academia Almadense, on the 7th at 9.30 pm and on the 8th and 9th at 3 pm)
- Text and staging: Noé João, based on the homonymous work by Paulina Chiziane
- Interpretation: Ana Paula Monteiro, Daniel Martinho, Huba Mateus and Rolaisa Embaló
- Light: Pedro Domingos
- Sound: André Pires
- Portuguese language
- Duration: 1h00
- Rating: M/16
- Price: 13€
- GRIOT Theater and United Artists (Lisbon)
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