Archive
Welcome to Já Archive! Click on the image for each event for more info including cast and crew, pictures, clips etc…
2023
2023, our biggest year yet, saw the inaugural edition of JáFest, our own extravaganza of onstage theatre, workshops, walking tours, our first-ever poetry film competition and an exhibition and panel discussion dedicated to four brave women journalists. JáFest in April 2023 was made possible by the support provided by the European Union through the Theatre in Palm platform. We had no sooner recovered from the festival than Suresh was back in the rehearsal room for Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic “No Exit”. We followed that up in November with a show dedicated to Roma culture.
2023 JÁ EVENTS
2023 JÁ ACADEMY
2022
In April, Suresh, Tania and Dan began plotting the innumerable moves, sallies and conversations that would lead to Já Festival twelve months later. In June, we were involved in the True Reflections festival. In October Tania gave a Coffee Talk for the “Theatre in Palm” program. Workshops with psychologists from the U.Lisboa were a big feature of our work in 2022, including a four-month workshop on playback theatre run with Ultim’acto which began in November.
Hamlet in Limbo: Grief & Time in Theatre
Workshop led by: Suresh Nampuri
Date: November 24-25, 2022
Venue: U.Lisboa
BLEED TRUE European Theatre Lab
Workshop led by: Suresh Nampuri
Date: May 17, 2022
Venue: Auditório Carlos Paredes, U.Lisboa
2021
In April, we ran a successful online workshop. In May we took part in the annual FEATS competition with an original work by our own Suresh Nampuri. His Shakespearean medley “Shaken & Stirred” featured at the Setúbal Theatre Festival in August.
Shaken and Stirred by Suresh Nampuri
Directed by: Suresh Nampuri
Date: August 19, 2021
Submitted to: Festival Internacional de Teatro de Setúbal
At Zephyr’s Turn by Suresh Nampuri
Directed by: Suresh Nampuri
Date: May 14-16, 2021
Submitted to: FEATS 2021 Festival
Venue: online
ACTING WORKSHOP Love & Vengeance in Drama
Facilitated by: Carmo Bebiano & Suresh Nampuri
Date: April 17-18-24-25, 2021
Venue: Zoom online
2020
Impossible alas for us to do live theatre in the Year of Covid. We responded by moving online. In April, we filmed short plays by Harold Pinter and our very own Suresh Nampuri, then in August Chekhov’s SwanSong with Mick Greer in full cry.
EQUINOX 2 short plays. Pinter. Nampuri.
Directed by: Suresh Nampuri
Date: April 21, 2020
Venue: online
2019
In 2019, venues were as scarce as hen’s teeth. Despite this, in July, we performed a triple bill called Jagged: a short play by Harold Pinter and two short and shocking pieces by Neil LaBute. In September we did a test-read of a new play set in the Algarve called In a Foreign Country and then took part in the 5th edition of the Lisbon REVERSO festival. In November we put on Insomnia, a poetic tale of three Russian writers.
INSOMNIA 3 writers in Moscow 1912-1916
Directed by: Tania Kumeda
Date: November 20, 2019
Venue: Ler Devagar, LX Factory, Lisboa
Monochrome & Aftermath 2 short plays
Written & directed by: Suresh Nampuri
Date: Sept 28, 2019
Venue: Cossoul, Lisboa
JAGGED 3 short plays by Harold Pinter & Neil LaBute
Directed by: Suresh Nampuri
Date: July 3-7, 2019
Venue: Ler Devagar, LX Factory, Lisboa
2018
In 2018, we focused on Staged Readings and workshops. Workshops are an opportunity for experienced and aspiring actors to exercise and hone their craft… as well as an opportunity for Já to meet new talent.
JÁ Staged Readings give actors and audience the opportunity to plunge into exciting scripts stripped to their central core – very few props, little costume, minimal set, just words and gestures. A chance too for directors to workshop a pet project, and for writers to see their plays free of the stress of an impending full production…
III: 3 short plays. Pinter, Williams
Directed by: Suresh Nampuri
Date: Dec 6 & 8, 2018
Venue: Ler Devagar Bookshop, LX Factory, Lisboa
CELEBRATION by Harold Pinter
Directed by: Dan Cotterall
Date: Sept 7-8, 2018
Venue: Studio 3.11, LX Factory, Lisboa
Acting Workshop LOVE AND LONGING IN THE CLASSICS
Led by: Suresh Nampuri
Date: July 14-15, 2018
Venue: Polo Cultural Gaivotas, Lisboa
PESSOA, FIRST PERSON PLURAL by Margarida Rocha
Written & directed by: Margarida Rocha
Date: June 29 & July 1, 2018
Venue: Studio 3.11, LX Factory, Lisboa
MEMORY LANES Stories by Vladimir Nabokov & Photography
Directed by: Tania Kumeda
Date: March 16-17, 2018
Venue: Studio 3.11, LX Factory, Lisboa
2017
In November 2017, a few months after registering “Já International Theatre – Associação Cultural e Recreativa”, we staged our first show – a double bill – at Teatro do Bairro in Chiado!
A FLORENTINE TRAGEDY inspired by Oscar Wilde
Directed by: Tania Kumeda
Date: November 22-26, 2017
Venue: Teatro do Bairro, Lisboa
THE BEAR by Anton Chekhov
Directed by: Tania Kumeda
Date: November 22-26, 2017
Venue: Teatro do Bairro, Lisboa
2017: THE GESTATION PERIOD
These clips date from 2017 when Já International Theatre was being ushered into the light!
