Wilde
May 8th at 3 pm . Wilde . mala voadora & Miguel Pereira . Café-Teatro do Teatro Campo Alegre . DDD+FITEI
“Wilde” is based on Oscar Wilde’s “LadyWindermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman” (a satire on Victorian morality), and more specifically on BBC Radio 7’s radio version of the play from the 1940s. The cunning elaboration of a lie by a woman with a dubious reputation ensures the play’s happy ending. The appropriation of the appropriation by means of that recording results in a performance in which actors and dancers try to outweigh it through a mixture of playback, theatre, operetta and dance. All characters look like the same ideal woman, thus standardising the female figure and blurring the differences between good and evil, man and woman, young and old.
© Photo: José Carlos Duarte
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directors Jorge Andrade and Miguel Pereira, based on Oscar Wilde . with Carla Bolito, Joana Bárcia, Jorge Andrade, Maria Matos, Miguel Pereira, Nuno Lucas and Tiago Barbosa . set design José Capela . costumes José Capela . lighting Daniel Worm d’Assumpção . soundtrack Jari Marjamäki . set photography José Carlos Duarte . produced by mala voadora, O Rumo do Fumo . co-produced by Culturgest, Teatro Viriato . artistic residencies Fórum Dança, Alkantara and Zé dos Bois