(*) 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, […]
Around Rio
(*) 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 […]
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 […]
The 2018 BCS Annual General Meeting took place at the Jubilee Hall on April 10th. All members were invited to attend, to hear the Chair’s report on 2017 and approve the annual accounts. Council and Officers elected for 2018-2019: Jenny Byers – Chair Margo Black – 1st Deputy Chair David Merrylees – 2nd Deputy Chair Alexander Corrie – Hon. Secretary Bill Ballantyne – Hon. Treasurer Richard Laver Susan Malpas David Richardson Noreen Smith Anna Whyte Kathryn Wilson Catherine Cleeve – […]
I write on the day of the burial of Revd Graham Roy Smith. It is for others to write a full obituary but my admiration for him and my sadness at his death compel me to dedicate this last Umbrella Chaplain’s Corner to him. It is hard to fathom the depth of the perseverance and humility and dedication of an expatriate Anglican minister who in his late 60s would raise the funds and then launch a new congregation in the […]