Monday, October 19, 2015

Luís Miguel Cintra bids farewell to the stage but keeps working as an actor in the theater – Digital Journal

Luís Miguel Cintra put an end to stage acting career, but will continue in film, having provided participate later this year in the new film by Sergio Treffaut, he told Lusa source of Cornucópia Theatre.

Last Saturday, the last recital of “Hamlet” by Shakespeare, in Cornucópia Theatre in Lisbon, the actor, 66, announced that it had been the last time you went up to the stage to represent.

“Today was certainly the last day I played in this house that was the home of this company, my, our house 40 years ago. I have specific health problems that I leave no longer present myself before you and to be on the scene with others, which is what we like to do, “he said at the time the actor and director, who expressed concerns about the continuity of the company he founded 42 years ago, with Jorge Silva Melo.

“To help the party, the structure we have built over these many years do not see how, at this juncture, as they say, may be able to overcome the economic difficulties that have. We do not know how much it will last, “said Luis Miguel Cintra.

At Lusa, the source of Cornucopia said that this decision Luís Miguel Cintra,” does not imply a departure from the direction of Cornucopia not the end of Cornucopia, implies only stop being a stage actor, as will continue to be a director, film actor, reciter, etc. “

Luís Miguel Cintra is one of the honorees in Lisbon & amp;.. Estoril Film Festival, to be held in November between Lisbon and Cascais.

According to the festival director Paulo Branco, Luís Miguel Cintra is “the greatest Portuguese player, which runs through all the most important thing has been done in film and theater.”

The festival will show some films in which Luis Miguel Cintra participated as an actor and some footage of pieces staged.

According to the program, there will be a session in which Luis Miguel Cintra read poems and other texts.

“The Old Restelo” (2014) and “Gebo and the Shadow” (2012), both of Manoel de Oliveira, are two recent films in which Luis Miguel Cintra participated.

This year’s Cinema of the Portuguese Academy awarded him the Sophia Prize career.

On the day of farewell, Luis Miguel Cintra has a torn compliment to the actor Guilherme Gomes, 22, who played the character “Hamelet” about whom he referred to “as a new great actor.”

“It is with immense trust in you, and great joy that I introduce you to these gentlemen as a new great actor, “Cintra said.

” Hopefully by the time this happens to me, I come to my side and consider a case that will not be the only one to have this opinion, absolutely exceptional. What Guilherme [Gomes] gave us this most difficult role of Hamlet, the pleasure I had in helping you build it, revealed qualities of such a rare and surprising way, so it came upon the interpretation of the text that we were doing, adding the test to test and show in show with his ideas, which makes this my farewell day these boards, a festive day I have authorized me out of the norm, “said actor and director.

Luis Miguel Cintra, among other awards, received the 2006 Pessoa Prize, and in front of the Teatro da Cornucopia led to the scene hundreds of pieces, some in premiere. In 1997, he performed at the Théâtre de la Commune-Pandora in Paris “Sertorius” by Corneille, directed by Brigitte Jaques, and in 2005 staged at the Teatro de la Abadia in Madrid, “Comedy sin Title” by Federico García Lorca.

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