Caliban

Synopsis: Video recording of the one-man show adapted by Eduardo Bonito and Marcos Azevedo.
Language: Portuguese (Brazil)
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Multimedia; Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: Sep 1997
Duration: 31 mins

Director

Eduardo Bonito; Marcos Azevedo

Music

André Abujamra

Production Design

Lutz Telles

Cast

Marcos Azevedo

General: Notes on the Dramaturgy by the actor Marcos Azevedo:

I began my research on Caliban, Shakespeare’s so well known character from "The Tempest", in 1992 when, while rehearsing for "Macbeth", I searched for greater contact with the Shakespearean Universe. The singular condition of this character which, for me, was a resonance of the American colonization process, seduced me. This was Shakespeare commenting about Brazil, even if indirectly. The influence of Montaigne’s "Cannibal *****" on the very text of "The Tempest" is notorious. Shakespeare deliberately made use of entire extracts from Montaigne in his own text.

I elaborated, therefore, a script which made use of many of Caliban’s quotes and descriptions from "The Tempest", and developed a story parallel to Shakespeare’s; a story about power and servitude from the point of view of who is enslaved. [From the production’s entry on the globalshakespeares website.
History: The production was staged in London, September 16-30, 1997, having begun its tour at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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