Os Sertões - A Terra

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Overview

From 2000 to 2007, Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona worked on the staging of Euclides da Cunha's epic book, Os Sertões, which describes the 19th Century War of Canudos in the Brazilian "sertão"(backlands). The result was the pentalogy of plays: A Terra (2002), O Homem I (2003), O Homem II (2003), A Luta I (2005), and A Luta II (2006). This first play is a carnival opera, the actors are the earth, the vegetation, the wind, the animals, the rivers, the drought. It reveals the most intimate secrets of nature, that also vibrate in the human and trans-human arteries. This work enriched by the experience that the subsequent works brought gains an updated insight into the human interference in the environment. Destructive power is proportional to financial power, and the discussion about the way space gets occupied was brought to the forefront, including the real-estate boom that surrounds today not only Teatro Oficina, but the whole world, now hotter and more arid.

Cast

A

Aneliê Schnaider

A

Anna Guilhermina

Ariclenes Barroso

Aury Porto

B

Bia Corrêa do Lago

C

Camila Mota

Other films by José Celso Martinez Corrêa

Macumba Antropofaga

2017

Os Sertões: A Luta II - Do Desmassacre ao Reinício

2006

Os Sertões: A Luta I

2005

Os Sertões: O Homem I — do Pré-homem à Revolta

2003