Friday (Sexta-Feira)

In Sexta-Feira (Friday), we are taken to embark into the adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. To re-tell this story of castaways, that challenge has been our purpose.

After Gabriel Garcia Marquez, after John Mawell Cotzee, Stig Dagerman, among others, in literature, and after innumerable cinematographic and TV visions, what is there yet to be said about a shipwrecked?

Taking a theme so widely present in the collective imaginary as it's start point (we remember the questionnaires which we are given each year by the generalist press in the so-called silly season: what would you take into a desert island? A: a) a bush knife? b) Time and Being, from M. Heidegger? c) suntan lotion?...), this show locates itself (or derives...) at a confluence of languages that, in a certain way, reflects a set of possible modes of survival and communication in the actual urban space.

We listen to the original text, by João Pedro Domingos d' Alcântara Gomes, through wireless phones and, in this show, we assume the text as a reading but also as a radio phonic emission ((...)telepathic...) and as a score.

In this spectacle, we look for forms of interaction, association and dissociation between gesture and word. In this research, the set of the explored languages concurs to a fragmented consciousness of that which is visible, audible, perceived. This gesture may result in a creative individual process, simultaneously in a construction of plural, multiple narratives, and tendencially convergent.

Sexta-feira results from an intense recollecter activity; in this proposal, a set of very diverse references served as matter of reflection, transformation and creation of specific codes. Movement, the manipulation of objects and images, configure themselves in a poetic and plastic language, in search for an eloquence of the body.