THE MISER

“What’s behind the laughter?” asks Molière, the second-year graduate.

The challenge of the 2nd year of theater is to finish the first semester laughing. Because laughing can be a very effective way of doing politics, as Molière taught us – and it is with this scoundrel that the party is held, the rockets are launched and the reeds are picked up, poring over this denunciation text, his The Miser.

In this exercise, the class appropriates the times of comedy and updates them in their bodies, in the perception of what is behind a laugh – what biting and fatal complex can guide the actress/actor to other intentions and temperatures? These unpredictable textures, found in the act of acting, can lead us to ironize about power, about capital and, of course, reflect on the theatrical exercise itself.

THE MISER

WITH:

Amanda Duda – Elisa

Bruno Sousa – Harpagão

Guilherme Palha – Cleanto

José Valente – Valério

Mariana Correia – Flecha

Lara – Mariana

TEXT: Molière

TRANSLATION: Alexandra Moreira da Silva

DIRECTION: Ivo Saraiva e Silva

ART DESIGN: José Cruz

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Carlos Silva, Cristina Queirós, Irene Saraiva, Luísa Marques, Paula Braga, Sérgio de Brito, SillySeason, Tomás Silva