PESSOA, FIRST PERSON PLURAL by Margarida Rocha e Melo
June 30 & July 02, 2018
Ler Devagar, LX Factory, Lisboa
Cast & Crew
YOUNG MAN Bráulio Pitra
FERNANDO PESSOA David Guedes
MADAM ROSA, THE CENSOR Fiona Spreadborough
OFFICE PARTNER, JOURNALIST Jamie Russell-Curtis
OFÉLIA Joana Almeida Santos
RICARDO REIS João Gamory
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS João Guimarães
ALBERTO CAEIRO Martim de Mesquita Guimarães
Written and directed by Margarida Rocha e Melo
Crew: Jorge Soares & Suresh Nampuri
Photo: Helena Gonçalves
“PESSOA, FIRST PERSON PLURAL”, an original piece penned and staged by Margarida Rocha e Melo, is an ode to the power to forge love and longing, seen through the mind’s eye of the Lusitanian master of disquiet, Fernando Pessoa.
The play pays homage to the man and his work by intertwining his heteronyms with his life and with the never-consummated relationship with his very own Ofélia…