At the channel to the left

In a dystopian future, survival of the fittest rules human relationships. On stage, we watch the conflict between the Meyerbeers and the Boumans, the world’s two last white families. They are mortal enemies, carrying a hate that transcendes generations, whose origins no one knows. Amidst this hopeless terror, Lucien Meyerbeer confronts his father to ask Angélica Bouman’s hand in marriage, thus avoiding the extinction of the white race.

Winner of the importante Dutch theater award Taalunie Toneelschrijfprijs, Alex van
Warmerdam's No canal à esquerda ponders the world where we want to live, through writing simultaneously harsh and cruel, and deep and inspiring. Translated by Giovana Soar, it’s one of the five titles published by the Dramaturgia Holandesa collections, which presents foundational Dutch contemporary theater texts translated by important names of Brazilian theater.

About the author
Alex van Warmerdam was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1952. He’s a theater and film director, writer, painter, composer, and actor. He holds a degree in Painting and Drawing from Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. He has written and directed numerous plays for the group Mexicaanse Hond. He also directed Voyeur (1986) and The Last Days of Emma Blank (2010), among other films. His film Borgman (2013) was considered for the Palme d’Or at Cannes. In 2018, EYE Filmmuseum, in Amsterdam, held a solo exhibit of his work, L’histoire Kaputt. He won the Prins Bernhard Cultuurprijs and Johannes Vermeer for his collective work in theater, painting, and film, in addition to the Amsterdam Albert van Daslum award for his play De wet van Luisman (1984). For No canal à esquerda (2011), he was awarded the important Dutch theater prize Taalunie Toneelschrijfprijs.

About the translator
Giovana Soar was born in Rio do Sul, in 1969. She’s an actress, director, translator, and master of Theater from Université Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle. From 2001 to 2005 she was in creative partnership with French group Théâtre de la Tentative. As a translator, she’s part of Maison Antoine Vitez, France. She has worked has interpreter and assistant for directors such as Claude Regy, Georges Lavaudant, Sotigui Kouiaté, Benoît Lambert and Phia Ménard. She has been the artistic director of the Curitiba Theater Festival Novos Repertórios series since 2017, and production director of the Brazilian theater company since 2003. In the company, she has worked as an actor, translator and director assistant in various plays, as well as directing A viagem (2009) and A cidade sem mar (2016) alongside Nadja Naira. In 2019, she directed the staging of Apenas o fim do mundo, in partnership Luis Fernando Lubi Marques, for the Recife group Magiluth.

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. In 2015, Cobogó also launched Dramaturgia Espanhola, the Spanish collection, and, in 2019, Dramaturgia Francesa (2019), the French collection, as part of the Projeto de Internacionalização de Dramaturgias [Playwriting Internationalization Project], conceived by Márcia Dias, alongside the Núcleo dos Festivais Internacionais de Artes Cênicas do Brasil [Brazilian Performing Arts International Festival Center]. Now the Dutch collection, Dramaturgia Holandesa, arrives, with the support of Nederlands Letterenfonds – Dutch Foundation for Literature, and the Performing Arts Fund NL. There are over 100 titles published in the Dramaturgia collection, featuring various award-winning plays from over 70 important playwrights.

Specifications
Title No canal à esquerda [At the channel to the left]
Collection Dutch Dramaturgy Collection
Author Alex van Warmerdam
Translator Giovana Soar
Language Portuguese
Page count 80
ISBN 978-65-5691-062-8 
Format Softcover
Size 13 x 19 cm
Year 2022