mala voadora and Teatro Oficina collaborated to produce two shows: (1) Marcos Barbosa directed Jorge Andrade in Will Eno’s monologue Título e Escritura, and (2) actors brought in by both companies joined Jorge Andrade to direct Don DeLillo’s A Sala Branca.
The protagonist of Título e Escritura appears on stage as a traveller who, in his wandering, encounters the audience of the room. He explores this situation. He wanders through whatever he can think of at the moment, especially his own past. He confronts the audience in front of him with his supposed biography. He confronts them with memories that aren’t happy. He self-flagellates. The discourse keeps moving between the rhetoric of representation proper to those playing a ‘role’ (the supposed verisimilitude of the character) and the rhetoric of non-representation (the supposed verisimilitude of the actor being himself). The show ends and we don’t know what journey he’s on that brought him to the theatre.
text Will Eno ‧ translation and direction Marcos Barbosa ‧ with Jorge Andrade ‧ set design and costumes José Capela ‧ light Ricardo Santos ‧ coproduction mala voadora and Teatro Oficina ‧ production João Lemos ‧ management and programming consultancy Vânia Rodrigues ‧
July 24, 2013 ‧ Fábrica ASA (Guimarães)
July 26, 2013 ‧ Centro de Criação de Candoso (Guimarães)
July 27, 2013 ‧ Auditório do Centro Social e Paroquial de Ronfe (Guimarães)
July 28, 2013 ‧ Auditório Pavilhão Coelima (Guimarães)
September 4 to 7, 2013 ‧ Negócio-ZDB (Lisbon)
November 30, 2013 ‧ mala voadora (Porto)
February 8, 2014 ‧ Centro Cultural do Mindelo (Mindelo, Cape Verde)
June 6, 2015 ‧ Associação de Moradores do Bairro Social da Pasteleira (Porto)