A Look at the Portuguese World

 

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Follow me for a trip through the rehearsals of an unconventional poetic performance, staged by the theater group the Corner House, which will be on tour thru Portugal and Galicia.

I find myself with a potential theatrical setting devoid of meat, where I only envision bare walls and a kind of makeshift bar where now echo the steps that flood a space that was mute before. Bit by bit, they start building a stage, gaining a consistency based on a structure surrounded by wires, lights and benches that will allow you to create a dialogue between the actors and the public. The island as they call it made of stacked chairs and a light to mimic a lighthouse. The mirror will reflect little or nothing it will show only glimpses of two shadows. The black volcanic sand and pebbles round off the scenario almost look like a land surrounded by sea. Before beginning the rehearsals all the material is tested for the tonight show, so there is no contingency. The acoustic guitar emit sounds foreign to its nature, seem whinnies, hisses and punches, which are slowly transforming itself into a rhythmic melody that serves as an introduction for the words and also to exalt the silences.

The dialogue in two voices in unison begins. The conflict between two tongues. The first is feminine, soft, but secure, out with a language almost strange, unfamiliar, but known at the same time. Maria Lada walks thru her Galician poetry. By the beginning of a story, that reads like this: In the most western coast the waves break... And it follows a spasmodic litany that tells the legend, or not, of an island that appears gradually as a mirror and that you can enter only on precise dates. The other begins is masculine and deep. We are accustomed to this candent sound that has a comforting familiarity. Suddenly, the stronger intonation of Ricardo Correia meddles, rediscovers it softness, and speaks in a tone full of pain, of loss: November hurts immensely, when the sea breaks on the rocks. It is a kind of dialogue between two lovers that initiates before my eyes. Is not her looking at him, nor he looking at her, more like a speech of two beings that go on missing each other. He says with an absent gaze: No balm for an arm amputated. You never ask for me. Perhaps is nothing more than the mirage of a relationship, which appears as an island gradually as in a mirror. They know it came to an end, it died, but the longing, ahh, the nostalgia does not kill, but tears you apart inside.

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