‘Impromptu de Versailles’ is a ‘redícula comedy’. And rightly – Overview

Filipe Ferreira

the stage is quite gaunt and, as a backdrop, only a wooden structures, some with a material that returns the image – an allusion to the Hall of Versailles Palace of Mirrors, is to say -In later stage director Miguel Loureiro that in 170 years the National Theatre D. Maria II, leads to Garrett comedy room the Versailles Impromptu , Moliere. a “cookie” on center stage .. will rotate several times and also rise in plain sight here, the theater mechanisms are used unceremonious the actors, these will enter the audience and in the first row will be seated the dramaturge that stop the scene whenever necessary – ” interruption is like the theater within the theater within the theater … “, say at one point. at the back of the stage, Cristina is the point of this piece, which will be heard by the microphone when the memory of Molière actors fail. The Versailles Impromptu , the playwright of the seventeenth century, more than portray the society was portrayed to you, the actors and directors and life at the court of Louis XIV: A director and your company to try to prepare a show for the king in a very short time and always cope with interruptions and setbacks. Miguel Loureiro look at this text – a “ divertissement ” written by Molière – as “a precious document on what would be the theater at that time.” “This piece is a celebration of theater and actor,” explains Miguel Loureiro, “is a true map of human relations and labor in the construction of a theater show.” Rodrigo Abecassis Fernandes (the dramaturge in the first row) and Vera Kalantrupmann actress, stage director (and actor) wanted to take to the stage this text but joined her other comedy master and still says, “our stuff” – “things” that bring us to the present day, more or less personal references that do not detract from the piece but take advantage of the momentum to speak of what is it today to do theater. On stage, flashes up the eye to the (dis) agreement spelling, plays with the language spoken in “comedies”, “spectators”, “redículo”, “action”, “ojolhos” and so on. “I love Moliere, even more than Shakespeare. Moliere is anchored to theater games, to comedy, to mannerism and affectation. In the research for this piece, I found delicious materials, could get up to 80 years to stage Molière, “says Miguel Loureiro, who takes preference for a theater” sweeping gesture, thick line and nonsense dead “. And now, three strokes, the play will start.

Filipe Ferreira

The Versailles Impromptu & gt; D. Maria II National Theatre & gt; Pç D. Pedro IV, Lisbon & gt;. T. 21 325 0800 & gt; 13 -30 abr, 19h Wed, Thu-Sat 21h, 16h gift & gt; € 5 to € 17

Filipe Ferreira