The show “Maria, Her Daughters and Her Sons” will be presented this Sunday (19), at 4 pm, at Praça México, Passo das Pedras, in Porto Alegre. On Saturday, from 2 pm to 5 pm, the group holds a theater workshop, with free admission. Those interested from 13 years old can register on site (check the address in the “Service”).
The activities are part of the Teatro de Rua Pra Resistir e Pra Lutar project, an initiative by Cambada de Teatro em Ação Direta Levante FavelA, which include a series of presentations of the show and street theater workshops in six different neighborhoods of Porto Alegre, between March and April. This project is being carried out with resources from the Municipal Fund for Supporting Artistic and Cultural Production of the Municipality of Porto Alegre (Fumproarte).
Written and directed by the group Cambada de Teatro em Ação Direta Leva FavelA…, the text is based on the play “Maria and her Five Children”, by the Santa Catarina playwright João Siqueira. With a strong content of social criticism, the montage seeks to promote reflections on social inequalities and their impact on people’s daily lives. The cast includes: Pâmela Bratz, Danielle Rosa, Ricardo Padilha, Merlin Morlos, Thomaz Rosa and Andrea Sparremberger.
The theatrical show “Maria, Suas Daughters and Their Sons” is a modern Brazilian fable about poverty in Brazil. Maria runs away from the countryside with her daughters and sons for not being able to pay the store and ends up working as a washerwoman to support her family, starting an amusing story of survival in the proletariat of Porto Alegre.
From a socialist and libertarian point of view, each of the characters points out their contradictions and ideologies, questioning the meaning of the rural exodus, marginality and prostitution.
The dramaturgical study went through a language research based on theatrical improvisation, studies of Bertolt Brecht, popular theater of Augusto Boal and the technique of Theater of the Oppressed.
The costumes are based on characters from Brazil, such as washerwomen, criminals, prostitutes and bricklayers. Songs were specially created to compose, in an organic way, with the dramaturgical proposal. The dramaturgical narrative develops non-linearly.
Maternity
“Maria, Her Daughters and Her Sons” is a modern Brazilian fable about poverty in large urban centers. The washerwoman Maria is bitter about the violent arrest of her son, Alfredo, without paying attention to the talk of the neighbors, while she continues to worry about her daughter, Dalva, and thus begins an exciting story of struggle on the outskirts of the city.
In the six months that preceded the premiere of “Maria, Suas Filhas e Seus Filhos”, in Porto Alegre, the group carried out 80 rehearsals, a period in which they deepened the research for the construction of the show, which was guided by studies of the original text by João Siqueira and its dramaturgical universe. In “Maria e Seus Cinco Filhos”, the author dives into the theme of single motherhood, family relationships, to question current society.
