It is an adaptation of a text of Alfred Jarry for Theatre, entitled "Ubu Roi Ubu Cuckold" by "teatro bolo do caco" who want to satirize the Madeiran society, by the hand of the director, playwright and actor, Miguel Xavier.
I took this piece of the Alfred Jarry Theatre, because the author has a number of plays with this character, it is a corrupt king, Machiavellian, nasty and that only makes things worse. I took at this character and adapted it to the Madeiran context, using local political figures who somehow I decided to satirize. It's a play, that makes a comparison and transformed people into "dolls". We also used the fairs-divers that animate the region, as the fiasco of the low marina, the power struggles in the "dolphinarium" and addressed the issue of local trade dominated by Chinese ... So, let us begin without any fear.
"It is the year 2014, under the reign of that-whose-name-must-not-be-even-be-pronounced. Lord of aventesmas-pink-orange strip a few days off and will visit a great friend of his party on the rose farm, hoping to find a little rest, and summer usually enjoys in Porto Santo. But, as you would expect from a story told by us soup would spilled out! "
The biggest challenge of this play was to make it short, because the "Ubu Roi Ubu Cuckold" has some forty pages, which covers the history of a corrupt that messes with the wife of his best friend. For our play I created the opening scenes of witches, the monologues of two narrators who explain the birth of the little corrupt, and the most disparate incidents occurring over the acts, since working with a certain surrealism. My biggest work was to make the text clear, with a coherent narrative and it was all logical. But let's move on that it is already late ...
"After Teresita come to show her boobs, the time has come to Albertu show the horns come in over a surreal political camp where things are ask to say, sing and tossed as a left hook hits the ribs!"
One of my favorite characters is the guy of the flag, which is the typical Maderian with crazy attitudes. Is somewhat the silly of the middle age, this slightly dislocated from reality and has the power to say things without people judge him evil, because it is an idiot.
The social criticism is strong, we're not here to defend a party or an ideology, simply we took these themes and we played a bit. We are not fighting for or against anyone. People see this satire as a play which, I hope, thay take home to reflect.
