On Saturday night, at the end of last representation of “Hamlet,” which was one month on stage at the Teatro da Cornucopia, Luís Miguel Cintra announced that it would move away from the stage. The director and 66 year-old actor said were “health problems” that dictated the end of his career in the theater.
Do not comment on the future of Cornucópia Theatre, which he founded in 1973 with Jorge Silva Melo (and of which I am director since), but it is known that the company faces financial problems. In July, and the purpose of the premiere of “Hamlet” at the Almada Festival, Luís Miguel Cintra, which since it began in the theater in 1968, has made more than a hundred shows, told the i that his health no longer allowed him ” make very large roles “- and so had opted for a small role in” Hamlet, “the play that staged. “I like both represent … In fact, I find it difficult not represent that no stage, I am more player in my way of being,” he confessed.
In the same interview, and although he retired the April 29, said not want to stop. “My shuffles up memory, there are things that I’m sorry but I can no longer do. I will try to continue to stage performances and above all be useful to those who will continue later. More to do brilharetes to crown this career thing, I feel like is to do risky things, dangerous and give me to know the life of the newest, how they think. I want to go on living. “
The director directed plays by authors such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Beckett or Brecht. Left to the end of “Hamlet” by Shakespeare, with a translation that he was promised by Sophia de Mello Breyner, because “there never seemed urgent” put it into play, he explained. “I always thought that the idea of careers is stupid, in the theater, at least.
The idea that a person goes up stairs to live up to the dignity of doing ‘Hamlet’ is a very silly idea . So I always had a spontaneous reaction to say ‘this is not worth doing because it’s what everyone wants to do,’ “counted. “As such, I was leaving behind, also had a promised translation …”
The same performance in co-production with the Almada Theatre Company, will return to the Almada Theatre next sexta- fair – and is by 15 November
Perhaps the guess his exit from the scene, Luis Miguel Cintra will also (alongside Wim Wenders) of the honorees at this year’s Lisbon & amp;. Estoril Film Festival, which takes place from 6 to 15 November in various locations of Lisbon and Cascais
In addition to a selection of 13 films in which he participated. – In all, and since his debut in 1971 in a short João César Monteiro, “Who Wait For Deceased Shoes Die Barefoot”, more than 70 films, the last one, “Gebo and the Shadow”, 2012, Manoel de Oliveira – the festival will also display filming some pieces staged, such as “E No You Can Exterminate it,” 1979, “The Island”, 2009 or “illusion” of last year.
himself will be present for the reading poems and many texts and after the projections, talk to the public and “with the various personalities that crossed throughout their career,” says the festival program.
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