Archive
Welcome to Já Archive where we store memories, share highlights, emotional moments, info, pictures, clips etc from previous productions.
2019
In 2019, we focused on classic 17th century English drama: a bunch of scenes from Shakespeare and William Wycherley’s acerbic and funny 1675 Restoration drama “The Country Wife”…
We staged “The Country Wife” in June at…
At the end of the year we…
2018
In 2018, we focused on Staged Readings and workshops.
JÁ Staged Readings are our very own ARTIST’S LAB dedicated to experiencing theatre raw. Very few props, little costume, minimal set, live music on occasion. An opportunity for both budding and established actors to plunge into exciting scripts stripped to their central core – words and gestures alone.
A chance too for directors to workshop a pet project, for writers to hear and see their plays breathe free of the stress of an impending full production… And for audiences to experience the intimacy of action and emotion a few feet away from you…
Workshops are an opportunity for experienced and aspiring actors to exercise and hone their craft… and an opportunity for Já to meet new talent.
III: 3 short plays. Pinter, Williams
ONE FOR THE ROAD by Harold Pinter
TALK TO ME LIKE THE RAIN AND I WILL LISTEN by Tennessee Williams
MR PARADISE by Tennessee Williams
Directed by: Suresh Nampuri
Date: Dec 6 & 8, 2018
Venue: Ler Devagar Bookshop, LX Factory, Lisboa
Cast:
- Cátia Rodrigues (WOMAN)
- Jorge Soares (AUTHOR, MAN, MR PARADISE)
- Margarida Leão (GIRL)
- Pat Butler (INTERROGATOR)
Musician: Ileana Brâncoveanu
Crew: Rosa Gavin
Video: Rui Pedro
CELEBRATION by Harold Pinter
Directed by: Dan Cotterall
Date: Sept 7-8, 2018
Venue: Studio 3.11, LX Factory, Lisboa
Cast:
- Cátia Delgado (JULIE)
- Dan Cotterall (LAMBERT)
- Dave Earl (MATT)
- Fouad Nouar (WAITER)
- Jojo Hui (SONIA)
- Jorge Soares (RICARDO)
- Margarida Figueiredo (SUKI)
- Miguel Pereira (RUSSELL)
- Pat Butler (PRUE)
Crew: Aleksa Khodorovska, Suresh Nampuri
Video & Photo: Sara Romero, Rui Pedro
Acting Workshop LOVE AND LONGING IN THE CLASSICS
Led by: Suresh Nampuri
Date: July 14-15, 2018
Venue: Polo Cultural Gaivotas, Lisboa
Goal: Explore the nature of passion, resolve, despair and redemption using monologue and scene work from Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill and Ibsen.
PESSOA, FIRST PERSON PLURAL by Margarida Rocha
Directed by: Margarida Rocha
Date: June 29 & July 1, 2018
Venue: Studio 3.11, LX Factory, Lisboa
Cast:
- Bráulio Pitra (YOUNG MAN)
- David Guedes (FERNANDO PESSOA)
- Fiona Spreadborough (MADAM ROSA, THE CENSOR)
- Jamie Russell-Curtis (OFFICE PARTNER, JOURNALIST)
- Joana Almeida Santos (OFÉLIA)
- João Gamory (RICARDO REIS)
- João Guimarães (ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS)
- Martim de Mesquita Guimarães (ALBERTO CAEIRO)
Crew: Jorge Soares, Suresh Nampuri
Video & Photo: Helena Gonçalves
MEMORY LANES Stories by Vladimir Nabokov & Photography
Directed by: Tania Kumeda
Date: March 16-17, 2018
Venue: Studio 3.11, LX Factory, Lisboa
Cast:
- Aurelia Assan (KLARA)
- Dan Cotterall (PODTIAGIN, VICTOR)
- Freddie Douglas (GANIN)
- Martim de Mesquita Guimarães (ALFIOROV, HE)
- Nuno Vieira (MEMORY)
- Pat Butler (FRAU DORN)
- Rosa Gavin (KOLIN, SHE)
- Tania Kumeda (NINA)
Crew: Margarida Rocha, Nicole Hutcheson, Suresh Nampuri
Video & Photo: Nuno Vieira
2017
In 2017, two months after the assembly that saw our association formally constituted, we staged our first mainstage show, a double bill at the Teatro do Bairro in Chiado!
The double bill comprised Oscar Wilde’s sensual and intense theatrical fragment, A FLORENTINE TRAGEDY, in which the universe shrinks into a room, and Anton Chekhov’s THE BEAR, where the clash between a widow and her creditor climaxes in a challenge to a romantic duel.
Our highlights reel from November 2017 set to Waltz No.2 by Dmitry Shostakovich is here
A FLORENTINE TRAGEDY inspired by Oscar Wilde
Directed by: Tania Kumeda
Date: November 22-26, 2017
Venue: Teatro do Bairro, Lisboa
Cast:
- Allie Mazon (BIANCA)
- Dan Cotterall (SIMONE)
- Diogo Velez (GUIDO BARDI)
Crew: Gonçalo Romão, Nicole Hutcheson, Pedro Moura, Suresh Nampuri
Visual Art: Alexia Kalteis
Video & Photo: Helena Gokotta, Catarina Alma Takver
THE BEAR by Anton Chekhov
Directed by: Tania Kumeda
Date: November 22-26, 2017
Venue: Teatro do Bairro, Lisboa
Cast:
- Dan Cotterall (SMIRNOV)
- Margarida Rocha (POPOVA)
- Rui Vasco (LUKA)
Crew: Gonçalo Romão, Nicole Hutcheson, Pedro Moura, Suresh Nampuri
Visual Art: Alexia Kalteis
Video & Photo: Helena Gokotta, Catarina Alma Takver
