Dream Symphony

Dream Symphony, Teatro Inominável company’s fourth creation, presents the story of Kevin, a nine-year-old boy suddenly taken by the desire to “become music”, due to the theater play he’s rehearsing in a new school. The plot was inspired on Gilles Deleuze’s and Felix Guattari’s philosophical treaty Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, on Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need to Talk about Kevin, and on the massacre that occurred on April 2011 in the Escola Municipal Tasso da Silveira, a public school in Realengo, Rio de Janeiro. In her introduction to the book, artist Eleonora Fabião writes that Dream Symphony “is theater”, producing “the transformation of political positions and aesthetic visions in aesthetic-political actions.”

About the author
Diogo Liberano was born on October 15th 1987, in Vassouras, Rio de Janeiro. He is an actor, director, playwright and theater producer, holding a degree in Performing Arts: Theater Direction from UFRJ, where his company Teatro Inominável was born in 2008. He has a master’s degree from PPGAC/UFRJ and a doctorate in Literature, Culture and Contemporaneity from PPGLCC/PUC-Rio. He is also a professor at the CAL Performing Arts College and coordinates the Núcleo de Dramaturgia Firjan SESI. Amongst his main dramaturgical works, some highlights are Sinfonia sonho (Dream Symphony), 2011, Primavera leste (East Spring), 2012, Maravilhoso (Wonderful), 2013, O narrador (The Narrator), 2014, Inquérito (Inquiry), 2015, Os sonhadores (The Dreamers), 2016, and Janis, 2017. His work as a director, playwright and curator has been nominated for the biggest theater awards in Rio de Janeiro: Shell, Cesgranrio, APTR and Questão de Crítica.

About the company
Teatro Inominável was born in 2008 at the UFRJ Performing Arts: Theater Direction department. It’s currently composed of artists, researchers and producers Andrêas Gatto, Clarissa Menezes, Diogo Liberano, Flavia Naves, Gunnar Borges, Laura Nielsen, Márcio Machado, Natássia Vello and Thaís Barros. In its ten years, it has put on three editions of the performing arts festival Mostra Hífen de Pesquisa-Cena, as well as the following plays and performances: Não dois (Not Two), 2009, Vazio é o que não falta, Miranda (We Don’t Lack Emptiness, Miranda), 2010, Como cavalgar um dragão (How To Ride a Dragon), 2011, Sinfonia Sonho, 2011, Concreto armado (Reinforced Concrete), 2014, O narrador (The Narrator), 2014, poderosa vida não orgânica que escapa (the powerfull inorganic life which dows not escape), 2016, Nada brilha sem o sentido da participação (Nothing Shines Without the Meaning of Participation), 2017, dentro (inside), 2019, and YELLOW BASTARD (2019). In its poetics, Inominável investigates the various connections between theater arts and performance, attempting to consider, rethink, write and rewrite other sensibilities for the affective and sociopolitical interaction of individuals in society.

About the collection
The Dramaturgia 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, the French collection. Over 70 authors have been published, with 82 titles.

Specifications
Collection Dramaturgy Collection
Author Diogo Liberano
Company Teatro Inominável
Language Portuguese
Page count 128
ISBN 9788555910838
Format Softcover
Size 13 x 19 cm
Year 2019