Mala Voadora
Sinopsis
SPEECH, n. Oratorical piece designed to persuade: forensic speech, sacred speech. Argument. Exposition of ideas (spoken or written). Series of reasonings. Fam. Empty verbiage.
At a time when Teatro Maria Matos is concentrating on themes of governance and politics, we invite Mala Voadora to revisit the show The decisive in politics is not individual thought, but the art of thinking what is in the heads of other people (said Brecht), which was premièred at Casa de Serralves in mid-2008. In the show, the actor and stage director Jorge Andrade used some of the great political speeches of history, whose contents were decisive for the fate of Portugal and the world: Salvador Allende, Yasser Arafat, Chiang Kai-Shek, Winston Churchill, Álvaro Cunhal, the Dalai Lama, Charles de Gaulle, Josef Stalin, Fidel Castro, Patrick Henry, the Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Muhammar Kadhafi, Vladimir I. Lenin, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Mao Tse-Tung, Benito Mussolini, Napoleon I, General Patton, Yitzhak Rabin, António de Oliveira Salazar, Andrei D. Sakharov, Shimon Peres, Mário Soares, Elizabeth Stanton, Aung San Suu Kyi, Leon Trotsky, and also a hit song by the Beatles.
The new version of the show, now directed by Miguel Loureiro, retreats from the public dimension of the speech, an ideological entity, and moves into an imaginary projection of the intimacy of its author. Documentary material for a fictional reworking of the speech, starting from the few words produced in their time by Mussolini, Salazar, Allende and Bonaparte, and making a fable out of what was previously rhetorical, circumstantial or merely factual. A room. A door.