Theatre

  1. This Is Our Youth (Written by Kenneth Lonergan). Director: Maria Luisa Mendonça. Role: Dennis. 2007. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Storyline: Set in New York in 1982, the play follows forty-eight hours in the lives of three very lost young souls: Warren, a dejected nineteen year old who has just stolen $15,000 from his abusive, tycoon father; Dennis, his charismatic drug-dealing friend who helps Warren put the stolen money to good use; and, Jessica, the anxiously insightful young woman who Warren yearns for. Funny, painful and compassionate, This Is Our Youth is a living snapshot of the moment when many young people go out into the world on their own, armed only with the ideas and techniques they developed as teenagers—far more sophisticated than their parents realize, and far less effectual than they themselves can possibly imagine.

2. A House in a Small Box (Written by Frank Borges). Role: Ben. Directors: Frank Borges and Ruy Filho. Ben. 2015. São Paulo, Brazil.

Storyline: The play addresses Ben’s story, a real estate agent who lived most of his childhood and teenage years moving from one city to another due to his father’s profession in banking. One day, Ben goes to an apartment to do an inspection. Unexpectedly, memories start to pop up in that empty apartment that looks like the house where he was raised with joy and love. So he starts to rebuild that sentiment during the inspection.

3. Relatively Speaking (Written by Alan Ayckbourn). Role: Director: Ary Coslov. Greg. 2014. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.

Storyline: The story concerns two couples, one young and one middle-aged, each containing one unfaithful partner. Greg wants to marry Ginny, who has only recently broken off an affair with her boss, Philip.

4. The Just Assassins (Written by Albert Camus). Role: Director: Moacir Goes. Alexis Voinov. 2006. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Storyline: The play is based on the true story of a group of Russian Socialist-Revolutionaries who assassinated the Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich in 1905, and explores the moral issues associated with murder and terrorism.

5. The Miser (Written by Molière). Director: João Bethencourt. Role: Cléante. 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Storyline: The Miser, five-act comedy by Molière, performed as L’Avare in 1668 and published in 1669. The plot concerns the classic conflict of love and money. The miser Harpagon wishes his daughter Elise to marry a wealthy old man, Anselme, who will accept her without a dowry, but she loves the penniless Valère.

6. The Graduate (Written by Terry Johnson). Director: Miguel Falabella. Role: Benjamin and others. 2005. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Storyline: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and, back at his parents’ house, he’s trying to avoid the one question everyone keeps asking: What does he want to do with his life? An unexpected diversion crops up when he is seduced by Mrs. Robinson, a bored housewife and friend of his parents. But what begins as a fun tryst turns complicated when Benjamin falls for the one woman Mrs. Robinson demanded he stay away from, her daughter, Elaine.

7. Pocket Generation – Poorly Translated People. (Written by Frank Borges). Director: Frank Borges. 2012. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.

Storyline: Ivan Cardoso dreamed of being a writer until his professor in college, Anne Mathias told him “you do not have what it takes to be a writer”. Many years after, Cardoso becomes the editor of chief of one of the most prestigious editing houses in Brazil. Everyday he goes to the stairs of the emergency exit to smoke a cigarette, and then one day he bumps into an old and lost woman trying to find the floor of the editor’s room: Anne Mathias. For the first time, Cardoso has the chance to show her that he has “what it takes to be a writer”. But first, he needs to go to the trash to find the sacred parts of some masterpieces he has edited out.

8. Tartuffe (Written by Molière). Director: Jacqueline Laurence. Role: Valère. 2005. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.

Blinded by admiration, Orgon, a property-owning French man, brings the poor and insincere Tartuffe into his home and arranges for his daughter to marry him. Various members of the family attempt to have Tartuffe thrown out. Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe.

9. The Hypochondriac (Written by Molière). Director: Jacqueline Laurence. Role: Cléante. 2006. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.

In the outrageously funny masterpiece The Imaginary Invalid, the hypochondriac Argan wants his daughter to marry a doctor so he can save on his medical bills. But she’s in love with someone else. Soon the whole household joins in her madcap scheme to save true love and give Argan’s doctors a dose of their own medicine.

10. Más respeto Que Soy Tu Madre (Written by Hernan Casciari and adapted by Antonio Gasalla). Director: Miguel Falabella. Role: Jair. 2011. São Paulo. Brazil.

Más Respeto Que Soy Tu Madre is an Argentinian play adapted from the blog of Hernan Casciari by Antonio Gasalla to theatre format. The Play tells the story of an Argentinian family narrated by Mirta Bertotti, a housewife who has to deal with her husband, father in law addicted to weed, and her son struggling to leave the closet.