Tragic Echoes and Cries Multiplied: Notes for a Production of Vincent Woods’ Version of the Deirdre Story by Cia Ludens

Autor/innen

  • Domingos Nunez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v13i0.3626

Schlagwörter:

Deirdre, Vincent Woods, Cia Ludens

Abstract

Since its foundation in 2003, the Brazilian theatre company, Cia Ludens, has produced four plays by outstanding Irish dramatists: Brian Friel,
Marie Jones and Bernard Shaw. During this period, research into Irish drama and history was done as part of the process of staging these plays. Three cycles of staged readings and the publication of translated short plays by Shaw were conceived to illustrate part of the material investigated for the major productions. The result has been a stimulating dialogue between past and present, text and vocal/gestural possibilities and, above all, Irish and Brazilian cultures. The continuation of such a dialogue is the ongoing process of producing A Cry from Heaven by Vincent Woods. The aim of this article is therefore to give an account of the multiple aspects considered for the production of the play by
Cia Ludens, from the translation of the script into Portuguese and a study of tragedy up to the non-realistic conceptions for the staging of the text.

Autor/innen-Biografie

  • Domingos Nunez
    Domingos NUNEZ is graduated in Letras by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, has an M.A. in Contemporary Portuguese Drama by Universidade de São Paulo and a PhD in Contemporary Irish Drama by Universidade de São Paulo and National University of Ireland. He is a translator, a playwright and the Artistic Director of Cia Ludens, which has produced, since 2003, four plays of Irish dramatists: Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa (2004) and Faith Healer (2009); Marie Jones’s Stones in His Pockets (2006) and Bernard Shaw’s The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (2008). He has published articles and translations on Irish Literature and on Cia Ludens creative processes.

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2011-11-17

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Bd. 13 (2011): ABEI Journal 13

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Zitationsvorschlag

Nunez, D. (2011). Tragic Echoes and Cries Multiplied: Notes for a Production of Vincent Woods’ Version of the Deirdre Story by Cia Ludens. ABEI Journal, 13, 51-57. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v13i0.3626