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(*) Ewa Procter Loleh Bellon, author of “Uma Relação Tão Delicada”, brings us the story of two women Charlotte and Jeanne, who are also mother and daughter. On stage, they live a relationship of over fifty years. Their lives show us all the feeling that at times joins them together, and eventually also separates them. The play involves love and tenderness, conflict and dissimulation. Besides, memory is not always precise. And many times, this imprecision disturbs the two […]
(*) Ewa Procter You may or may not enjoy this tragedy by William Shakespeare. You may think it is too heavy, too tiring, too difficult to understand. However, I am sure that if you go and watch the theatrical version where Gustavo Gasparani and Sérgio Modena adapted this famous text, you will see that it is an enjoyable way to either get acquainted or to remember the story of this famous villain. Although this production counts on a single actor, […]
(*) Ewa Procter This year my summary of the plays I saw during the past months is earlier than usual! In the past, I have always waited for the year to finish, before doing this summary. However, even if I had been going to the theatre as usual, I had no way of writing about a play that would be on for just a few more days. You may remember my mentioning in the past that, contrary […]
(*) Ewa Procter “O Despertar da Primavera” (or “Spring Awakening” in English) is a famous play by Frank Wedekind that has been adapted into a musical many years after it was first written. Steven Sater, responsible for the text and the lyrics, and Duncan Sheik for the music, had their work produced on Broadway in 2006; and at that time, they received several favorable critics. But quickly going back into a recent past: in 2009, Charles Moeller and Cláudio Botelho […]
“UM CASAMENTO FELIZ” (*) Ewa Procter When one is going through difficult times, the best thing is to try and look for something pleasant, something that would bring some relief to every day’s troubles. A good thing (and I recommend it!) is to go and watch a comedy. But it must be a good comedy! “Um Casamento Feliz” is an excellent example of my recommendation. It is an adaptation of a French play that was a huge success in […]
(*) Ewa Procter A while ago, chatting with a group of friends we commented the fact that, in recent years there had been very few stagings of comedies written by João Bethencourt. Remembering that João Bethencourt (1924-2006) was one of Brazilian theatre writers who had also achieved success in different countries in Europe when his plays were translated into English, French, German and Hungarian, among other languages. Recently Hélio Zacchi and Agnes Xavier, through their theatre company Hagazachi Comunicações […]
We’re delighted to inform that on her 8th June birthday, The Queen was graciously pleased to give orders for the promotion of an MBE to Adam Reid for his “services to sport, underprivileged children and the British community in Brazil”. Adam has helped The British School, the BCS and Street Child United Brazil, among other organisations, for many years. In the photo, Adam can be seen at his son’s graduation last month.
Resplendent in their kilted uniforms, the boys of the Brazilian Pipers Pipe Band, based in São Gonçalo, have become a regular and very popular attraction at BCS events, with their lively display of foot-tapping Scottish and Brazilian tunes. Not many of us will be aware that it’s twenty years now since the band was inaugurated by retired Fusileiro Naval officer José Paulo Perreira Filho as a social project to develop and create opportunities for teenage boys from one of the […]
Article by James Frew, Chair of the St Andrew Society. St. Andrew Society of Rio de Janeiro *Founded in 1906* Scottish week October 06 to 14 2018 If you’ve ever heaved a rock into the still water of a Scottish loch, you’ll have seen how far the ripples keep going long after there’s no sign of where the rock submerged and just at the point where attendances at Audrey Hieatt’s Scottish country dancing classes at the Paissandu Club have […]