Teatro Experimental do Porto premieres "What a rogue am I!" at Rivoli

The Teatro Experimental do Porto presents, in absolute debut, on the 18th (at 9.30 p.m.) and the 19th (at 7 p.m.), at the Grande Auditorium Manoel de Oliveira at Teatro Rivoli, "What a rogue am I!".

The title is inspired by an excerpt from the second act of Hamlet, when the prince of Denmark laments: "Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!"

The Romanesque corpus, on which the text of playwright Rui Pina Coelho is based, comes from the British post-World War II to the present day and focuses on a type of hero commonly known as "rogue".

Inspired by the literary character "rogue," from the Shakespearean universe, referring to someone belonging to a class of vagabonds, usually described as marginal, dishonest and unprincipled, "What a rogue am I!" Creates a discourse for a couple who is indicative of couples like Bonnie and Clyde or Mickey and Mallory, throughout the history of Europe in the second half of the twentieth century, leading to an increasingly confusing 21st century.

This contemporary couple of "rogues" are an actress (Ana Brandão) and a vídeo artist (Cláudio da Silva), who decide to live in the countryside, in a kind of poultry vegetable garden. There, they project films on a white sheet hanging from a clothesline and steal electricity to power the battery of their computers.

+ Info: What a Rogue Am I! - Teatro Experimental do Porto

Grand Auditorium Manoel de Oliveira

Friday 18th - 9:30 p.m. & Saturday 19th - 7 p.m.

Premiere / Coproduction