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Part of: Fast Forward Festival 5

FFF5 | The Odyssey

Leonardo Moreira & Cia. Hiato

Dates

Prices

5 — 10 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Tuesday & Wednesday
Time
19:00
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

Onassis Stegi Friends & General Presale: from 19 APR 2018, 12:00
Full price: 10 €
Reduced, Onassis Stegi Friends, Small groups (5-9 people): 8 €
Neighborhood residents, Large groups (10+ people): 7 €
Unemployed, People with disabilities, Companions: 5 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org

General

3 hours and 20 minutes (with 2 intermissions of 20 minutes)
1st part: 1 hour and 30 minutes
2nd part: 1 hour and 10 minutes
3rd part: 40 minutes

World Premiere | In Portuguese, with Greek and English surtitles.

Age guidance: 18+

Drawing inspiration from the Homeric epics, the outstanding Brazilian collective returns to the Onassis Stegi. Like contemporary rhapsodists of old, seven actors recount personal and collective odysseys, oscillating between realism and fantasy. The living/live experience of this marginal narrative challenges the fact-fiction dichotomy and the audience-actor polarity. Because, after all is said and done, we may all be equally mythical and monstrous.

Cia. Hiato’s "The Odyssey" is inspired by Homer’s narrative and associated with personal experiences of the actors. In this rhapsodic play, the audience takes the place of the absent protagonist: Odysseus.

So the audience might be a foreign guest listening to contemporary stories, but also be a migrant, a political and military leader, a strategist, a poet, a husband, a father, an adulterer, a homeless person, a pig, a soldier with a traumatic past, a thief, a liar, a colonial invader, a home owner, a refugee, a mass murderer, or a war hero.

Leonardo Moreira and his actors divided the poem in seven investigations that correspond to a certain character in the "Odyssey": Telemachus, his abandoned son; the nymph Calypso, who offered him her immortality and endless love; the witch Circe, who guided him until the world of the dead; the goddess Athena, who architected a war on his behalf; Penelope, his waiting wife; Odysseus’s many shipmates who died before they could make it home and the countless slaves in Odysseus’s house, many of whom are never named.

Similar to the poem, seven actors tell their own personal stories – some true, some false, dreams, memories and doubts – to weave and unweave a multilayered narrative that is both simple and artful in its composition.

Immersing ourselves in the “stories we tell” may help us reconsider our infinitely complex contemporary world – the plight of a people who want to remember that there are no boundaries between ordinary life and mythology. Grasping the small, tragi-comical details of modern day life intertwined with the Greek Ancient thoughts about the human condition, the experience of Cia Hiato’s "The Odyssey" is an intimate sharing between actors and audience of powerful feelings as love, sadness, sex, abandon and anger.

Photo: Laerte Késsimos

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Cia. Hiato is: Aline Filócomo, Aura Cunha, Fernanda Stefanski, Leonardo Moreira, Luciana Paes, Maria Amélia Farah, Marisa Bentivegna, Paula Picarelli, Thiago Amaral, Yumi Ogino

Cia. Hiato, the group founded by the director and playwright Leonardo Moreira, is considered one of the most promising and talented theatre collectives in Brazil. Moreira gathered a group of actors with whom he started working from the hiatus between fiction and reality. Over the years they created a body of work winning several prices in Brazil.

"Cachorro Morto" (2008), was nominated for two FEMSA Awards (Best Play and Best Scenography). "Escuro" (2009) received three Shell Awards in 2011 – Best Playwright, Best Scenography and Best Costume.

In 2012, O "Jardim", his third work, was nominated for 19 of Brazil’s leading awards and won a.o. the Shell Award 2012 – Best Playwright. O "Jardim" was named the best play of recent years by several critics. International touring followed with a Dutch touring festival curated by Frie Leysen and presentations at Under the Radar, New York; Onassis Stegi; HAU, Berlin; Mousonturm, Frankfurt; Hellerau, Dresden; FestWochen, Austria; etc.

"Ficção" (2012), consisting of six one-hour monologues by each one of the core actors of the company was invited to Theater Der Welt in 2012 and later part of Projeto Brasil touring Germany in 2016. In 2014 on invitation of KunstenFestivalDesArts the group produced 2 "Fictions" (2014) that was presented at the festival and later in Brazil.

The last work, "Amadores" (2017), was nominated as Outstanding Direction at the São Paulo’s Arts Critics Association (APCA) and named one of the best pieces to be seen in Brazil by different media.

In 2018 the company celebrates its 10 years of existence with the presentation of several works of the company in Sao Paolo as well as with the premiere of their seventh production "The Odyssey".

CREDITS

  • Inspired by

    Homer’s "The Odyssey"

  • Directed by

    Leonardo Moreira

  • Written by

    Aura Cunha, Aline Filócomo, Fernanda Stefanski, Leonardo Moreira, Luciana Paes, Maria Amélia Farah, Paula Picarelli, Thiago Amaral

  • Cast

    Aline Filócomo, Aura Cunha, Fernanda Stefanski, Luciana Paes, Maria Amélia Farah, Paula Picarelli, Thiago Amaral

  • Co-Direction

    Luciana Paes

  • Assistant Director

    Aura Cunha

  • Dramaturgism

    Mariana Delfini

  • Set-Lighting Design

    Marisa Bentivegna

  • Costume Design

    Chris Aizner

  • Assistant Set Design-Video Operator

    Cezar Renzi

  • Sound and Music by

    Miguel Caldas

  • Audio-visual Director and Graphic Design

    Laerte Késsimos

  • Photos

    Ligia Jardim

  • Voice (recorded)

    Angeliki Papoulia

  • Translation

    Giannis Papadakis

  • Production Direction (EU)

    Judith Martin - "Ligne Direct"

  • Production Management (EU)

    Jonathan Offereins – "Connecting Creativity"

  • Produced by

    Cia. Hiato and Onassis Culture/FFF

  • Co-production

    SESC-SP, Grand Theatre Groningen, Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo, Governo do Estado de São Paulo

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