UA text about immigrants, rescue teams, and organizations that attract or repel immigrants are themes to be addressed in the play, added Rodrigo Aleixo.
The companies Teatro Gìria and Experimental de Cascais (TEC) premiere, on the 18th, a text on Walt Whitman’s migrations, in a play that aims to bring to the public all the dangers inherent in anyone who wants to ignore them, Rodrigo Aleixo told Lusa.
He added that the film’s title comes precisely from the quest to be free “which is the common desire of any immigrant”.
He added that the idea of ”conceiving this show had a great coincidence with the fact that a Portuguese man had participated in the rescue of Mediterranean immigrants, an experience that will also be put on stage”, he said.
The play began to be conceived about a year ago when Teatro Gíria invited Miguel Graça to write a play about the migratory crisis in the Mediterranean, added Rodrigo Aleixo.
He added that, over that time, Miguel Graça had the opportunity to investigate the events that began to have an echo in the media, especially from 2013 onwards, with the shipwreck of Lampedusa where around three hundred people lost their lives, but also to interview several people, refugees, migrants and volunteers who had direct contact with reality.
“We did research work for about a year and five months in which Miguel Graça interviewed many volunteers, refugee people, volunteer host families among others”, said Rodrigo Aleixo to Lusa, adding that they had talked to several people and then conceived a documentary fiction story based on true testimonials
“Free” is the theatrical result of this work, a documentary-fiction that follows the path of several characters and several people who represent, in a certain way, the best and worst of all of us, at the same time that it tries to reflect on our actions, about time, about love and about our position in our country, in the world and in the universe, he stressed.
Actress Bárbara Branco, who is part of the cast of the play, underlined the often selfish way in which we deal with migrants and all matters related to migration”. very pertinent, and that is, really, a punch in the stomach”.
On stage at TEC until May 28, with recitals from Tuesday to Saturday at 21:00, and on Sunday at 16:00, ‘Free’ will be interpreted by Bárbara Branco, Daryab Rasoli, Francisco Monteiro Lopes, João Gaspar, Mário Coelho, Manuela Couto, Patrícia Fonseca and Rivânia Saraiva.
Assisting in the staging is Pedro Caeiro, the scenography is by José Manuel Castanheira, the costumes by Fernando Alvarez, the light design by Pedro Guimarães and the percussionist will be Miguel Sobral Curado.
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