Maré / brazil Project

MARÉ / bRAZIL PROJECT brings together the texts of two plays by the director and playwright Marcio Abreu. Each in its own manner, they engage with Brazilian issues through pulsating dramas. MARÉ brings to the stage four points of view on the same episode, inspired by a real fact: the massacre in the Maré Complex of favelas in 2013. The grandmother, the children, the mother, and the father of a family that suffered police violence narrate a decisive day in their lives. The work, inspired by the reality of the Brazilian favelas, brings the echoes of the city to the poetic language of the theater. In turn, bRAZIL PROJECT is a dramaturgical creation from the country and not about it, the result of an immersion in deep Brazil, often turbid and turbulent waters to navigate. The play creates a dialogue with what is real through a sequence of discourse – verbal and nonverbal – that makes the audience reflect upon the country’s present, in its political and human aspect, and the multiplicity of countries that exist within.

About the author
Marcio Abreu is a playwright, director, and actor. He created and is part of the Brazilian theater company. He performs exchange actions with artists from Brazil and Europe. Among his works are Vida (Life), 2010, for which he received the Gralha Azul Award for Best Text and Director; Oxigênio (Oxigen), 2010, by Ivan Viripaev; Isso te interessa? (This Interest You?), 2011, by Noëlle Renaude, which earned him the 2012 APCA and Bravo! Awards for Best Show of the Year and the Questão de Crítica Award for Best Direction; Esta Criança (This Child), 2012, by the Frenchman Joël Pommerat, for which he received the Shell Award for Best Director; Nômades (Nomads), 2014, written by himself; and Krum (2015), by Hanoch Levin, which earned him the 2015 Shell, Cesgranrio, and Questão de Crítica Awards for Best Director. In 2012, he wrote a version of Os Três Porquinhos (The Three Little Pigs) for Comedie Française and co-authored A História do Rock (The History of Rock), by Raphaelle Bouchard with Compagnie Jakart, with which he also collaborated on Nus, ferozes e antropófagos (Naked, Ferocious, and Cannibalistic). He was named by Folha de S. Paulo as theater personality of the year, in 2012. In 2013 collaborated in the direction of the play Cinema Monstro, of Daniel MacIvor, directed and interpreted by Enrique Diaz. He directed Naked, Ferocious and Cannibalistic, in collaboration with the French company Jakart/Mugiscué and the National Drama Center of Limousin. In 2015, he wrote and directed PROJECT bRASIL with the partners of the Brazilian theater company. In 2016 he directed the renowned Grupo Galpão in the spectacle NÓS, text written in partnership with Eduardo Moreira. In 2017 he coordinated and directed the project PRETO (BLACK), partnership with Grace Passô and Nadja Naira.

About the collection
The Dramaturgy Collection has, since 2012, published writing by Brazilian and international playwrights. The books help in building a memory of current theater, making a new record in the contemporary theater scene.

Specifications
Collection Dramaturgy Collection
Author Marcio Abreu
Language Portuguese
Page count 104
ISBN 9788555910111
Cover Radiográfico
Format Softcover
Size 13 x 19 cm
Year 2016