Teatro Carlos Alberto

O Inesquecível Professor

text, stage direction and set design Pedro Gil

O Inesquecível Professor

Description

Writer, actor and stage director Pedro Gil has a very personal way of looking at the great theatre of the world. “I think I can only do comedy; I think that everything is comedy. Comedy in the sense that life is a failure at which I can only laugh.” O Inesquecível Professor [The Unforgettable Teacher] is the play that follows Don Juan Esfaqueado na Avenida da Liberdade, where “his” libertine escapes the flames of biblical Hell to fall into 2018 Portugal, a different sort of Hell, possibly cooler but decidedly funnier. O Inesquecível Professor, we warn you in advance, begins in a sad note. A theatre teacher on the brink of retirement no longer feels the joy of the first day of class. He sees this unprecedented event as the confirmation of his defeat: the theatre he has upheld and taught to his students has failed to materialise. But the worst is yet to come: he convinces himself that the only way to keep his final-year students from ending up like himself is to do everything within his power to save them from a life in the theatre… O Inesquecível Professor, as we all have realised by now, is a comedy, that place for deriding and celebrating humanity. Some teachers can never be forgotten.

Credits

text, stage direction and set design Pedro Gil

lighting design Daniel Worm d’Assumpção direction support Diogo Andrade dramaturgy support and general production Raquel Castro

cast Anna Leppanen, António Fonseca, Bruno Ambrósio, João Estima, Júlia Valente, Mário Coelho, Sara Inês Gigante and Ana Isabel Arinto, Catarina Pacheco, Joana Bernardo, João Jonas, Siobhan Fernandes, Tomás de Almeida (TNDMII trainees)

co-produced by Razões Pessoais, Companhia Olga Roriz, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Teatro Nacional São João

artistic residency O Espaço do Tempo

opening 11Nov2021 Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisboa)

playing time 2:00 Ages 14 and up