based upon the novel by Mia Couto adapted and directed by Victor de Oliveira set design Margaux Nessi costumes and props Sara Machado lighting design Diane Guérin sound design Samuel Gutman video Eve Liot original music Ailton Matavela paintings and sculptures Butcheca dramaturgy collaboration Charlotte Farcet direction assistance Venâncio Calisto cast Ana Magaia, Bruno Huca, Daniel Pinto, Elliot Alex, Eunice Mandlate, Horácio Guiamba, Isabelle Cagnat, Josefina Massango, Lucrécia Paco, Klemente Tsamba, Mário Santos, Miguel Moreira, Miguel Nunes, Sofaida Moyane, Victor de Oliveira guest appearance Gracinda Nave co-produced by En Votre Compagnie (France), Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano (Maputo), Teatro Aveirense, Le Grand T – Théâtre de Loire-Atlantique, MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, Malraux – Scène Nationale Chambéry Savoie, Les Célestins – Théâtre de Lyon, Teatro Nacional São João support Ministère de la Culture – Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France, Instituto Camoes (Maputo and Paris), La Colline – Théâtre National, Universidade de Aveiro opening 8 Sep 2023 Teatro Aveirense (Aveiro)
14 — 17 Sep
Teatro São João
As Areias do Imperador
based upon the novel by Mia Couto
adapted and directed by Victor de Oliveira
Sinopse do evento
Actor and stage director Victor de Oliveira (born in Mozambique, studied in Portugal and working in Paris since 1994) adapts to the stage As Areias do Imperador [ Sands of the Emperor ], Mia Couto’s “Mozambican trilogy”. The emperor in the title is Ngungunyane, who during the late 1800s ruled over the whole southern half of Mozambique, a redoubt of political combat against the Portuguese colonial power. At the helm of a team of Mozambican, Portuguese and French actors and creators, Victor de Oliveira develops a universe into which reality and imagination, fact and fiction converge. Here, the past is not a time buried in the cemetery of History; it is a living, plural root, because memories and misremembrances are manifold, be they told by the vanquishers or by the vanquished. At the heart of As Areias do Imperador we find Imani Tsembe, a young Mozambican woman, and Germano de Melo, a Portuguese sergeant. Two voices and two destinies united in chaotic, adventurous itinerancy.
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playing time 3:30 with intermission
Ages 16 and up
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