THEATER
One upon a time a princess...No. This show is not about princesses. Another anti-princess arrives to throw everything upside down. Who better than Clarice Lispector, who turned upside down sentences and literary genres, who bended words and freed thoughts?
This Brazilian considered herself an "anti-writer", because she didn't like structures, academic things, nor rules, and wrote where and how she could: in small pieces of paper, napkins or with her typewriter on her lap, while her children ran around and she picked up the phone and helped them with their homework.
A working class woman, who lived like a princess in Europe and the USA and she didn't like it, went back to her motherland and kept working, and she even wrote books for little girls and little boys whose protagonists are a chicken, a thinking rabbit, and even a crazy dog who eats cigarettes...
Lipector's world doesn't have only one door, it has many and varied, and also windows with inordinate full stops and commas, so that nothing is says and everything remains untold.
Clarice is part of a series of four shows - AntiPrincesas - created by Cláudia Gaiolas from the book series with the same name, published by Tinta da China and EGEAC.
This Brazilian considered herself an "anti-writer", because she didn't like structures, academic things, nor rules, and wrote where and how she could: in small pieces of paper, napkins or with her typewriter on her lap, while her children ran around and she picked up the phone and helped them with their homework.
A working class woman, who lived like a princess in Europe and the USA and she didn't like it, went back to her motherland and kept working, and she even wrote books for little girls and little boys whose protagonists are a chicken, a thinking rabbit, and even a crazy dog who eats cigarettes...
Lipector's world doesn't have only one door, it has many and varied, and also windows with inordinate full stops and commas, so that nothing is says and everything remains untold.
Clarice is part of a series of four shows - AntiPrincesas - created by Cláudia Gaiolas from the book series with the same name, published by Tinta da China and EGEAC.
Additional information
Direction and interpretation Cláudia GaiolasAssistant to the director Leonor CabralDramaturgy Alex CassalScenography and costumes Ângela RochaCoproduction Teatro Meia Volta e Depois à Esquerda Quando Eu Disser and São Luiz Teatro MunicipalA comission from São Luiz Teatro Municipal and Programação em Espaço Público,From the book series Antiprincesas, shared edition from Tinta-da-China and EGEACPaart of the programme Lisboa na Rua
© José Frade
© José Frade