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Dateline: 3rd February, 2006
Brazilian Tempest at Greenwich International theatre company Zecora Ura is to bring a very international version of Shakespeae's The Tempest to the Greenwich Playhouse from 7th March to 2nd April. Beginning with the company's exchange of practice with the celebrated Brazilian Theatre Companies LUME Teatro and Grupo Moitara as well as research into Brazilian folklore and culture, followed by a tour of seven cities in Brazil, they have now teamed up with award-winning Polish director Gabriel Gawin, a founding member and then principal performer in the Polish Theatre Company, Teatr Piesn Kozla (Song of the Goat) for five years, who has been faced, as the company says, "with the challenging task of assimilating the Latin American spirit alive amongst the cast with his broad knowledge and experience of Shakespearian text and Polish theatre practice." With this production the company is "endeavouring to mix the four languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Basque and English) represented within the cast, into an island pidgin. The result of this experiment is a beguiling sonorous flow of seductive sounds that communicates the essence of Shakespeare's images. The 'pidgining' of The Tempest stems from Zecora Ura theatre's desire to challenge audience perception of other languages. A direct result of this transformation is that the play becomes instantly more accessible to an audience of today's culturally-diverse society." The production is directed by Gabriel Gawin (Poland/UK) with dramaturgy by Hannah Whelan (France/UK). It is designed by Ingvill Fossheim (Norway), with lighting design by Oliver Halls (UK). Costumes are by Marie Dahlstrom (Sweden) and set construction by Edward Wirtz (South Africa). The cast consists of Cast Agnes Brekke (Colombia), Unai Lopez de Armentia (Spain) and Jorge Lopes Ramos (Brazil). Tickets are £11 / £8 (concessions) and £7 for group bookings of 10+ , available from ther Greenwich Playhouse box office on 0208 858 9256 or by email from boxoffice@galleontheatre.co.uk Zecora Ura, based in London and committed to promoting genuine collaboration within a culturally diverse environment, is currently in residence at Rose Bruford College. An insight into the work of Zecora Ura's collaborator, LUME Teatro Brazil, can be found in an interview which the BTG's Jackie Fletcher did with two members of the company during the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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