So, yesterday I went to the theatre. It was a play in a very well localized theatre in Lisbon (Teatro da Trindade in Bairro Alto). It was called “Escape Land” and it was a dialogue between two terrorists and a Jewish girl that dated one of the terrorists all of them in a resort near the Dead Sea.
The dialogue is a philosophical desertion about the human condition, a big metaphor for all our lives. Two terrorists are waiting a phone call from a godfather, so they can find their mission, their target, but who is the godfather, what are they to do, is there a godfather, who is giving them orders, why are they following them?
The play was good, almost great, and if we take in account that it was extremely cheap to go, there is absolutely no reason for the room to have FOUR people. I was to write a big text complaining about the lack of interest of the Portuguese people for theatre. But as I was writing this text I realised... The company that produced and executed the play was too good for this text to focus mainly on the lack of audience, so congratulation to:
Alexandra Sargento, Fernando Rebelo and Karas who were the three actors in the play;
And to Eduardo Condorcet who directed the play.
