The piece «Blood Tie» will return to Faro, to the place where the Teatro Lethes premiered at national level, from tomorrow until Sunday. The show by ACTA-A Companhia de Teatro do Algarve returns to its origins after a tour that took it to Almada and to various Algarve locations, where it was always very well received by the public.
The play is much easier for those watching than for those on stage, confessed Mário Spencer, who shares the stage with Luís Vicente, who also stages the play, in this show for two.
Mario Spencer was in conversation with the Sul Informação and with Rádio Universitária do Algarve RUA FM on the radio program Impressões. The conversation can be heard in full on Saturday at 12 noon, or on FM Street website.
For the actors, it's more than two hours of acting, with almost no breaks. “In the end, we're completely exhausted, we don't even have a voice to speak, because the play is so intense. But I think it can only be done this way, to respect the text,” he said.
For the public, this is, from the outset, an opportunity to get to know the powerful and profound text of the South African director Athol Fugard, "who is one of the most read English-language playwrights after Shakespeare".
The ACTA actor, born in Guinea Bissau and who has settled in the Algarve for many years, does not hide the pleasure he feels at the bring to the scene a text that focuses on prejudice, framed by the Apartheid regime, in the 60s of the XNUMXth century. “This text is a pearl”, he praised.
“In Guinea, the oldest people say that you can invent anything but the knife that cuts the brotherhood,” recalled Mário Spencer. An idea that underlies the plot of Blood Ties, which speaks of the brotherly love of two men, who, by the simple fact of living together in the same house, are breaking the law and confronting the installed powers.
«The one who introduced us to the text was Joaquim Benite, who wanted to bring the play to the scene, but couldn't do it at the time because he was very sick. We read and fell in love with the piece, because the text is simply sublime. Then we had to cut it, which is a crime, but even so the piece has two hours and a quarter», he revealed.
The length of the play is not a problem, from the perspective of the audience, who on more than one occasion seemed to have felt they could go on a little longer. «We've already taken the piece to Almada…it even shivers. We did the play in Almada, at Sala Estúdio, a small room where the audience was right up there. I can only tell you that it was a wonderful three days», said the actor.
"People went crazy with the spectacle", illustrated Mário Spencer, noting that the public in this city along the Tagus "is not just any public". "On the last day we had brave, brave, brave!", he illustrated. It even ended up improvising a get-together with some of the people who watched the show, after its end.
This enthusiasm, felt in several places, led ACTA to decide to add dates in Faro that were not initially planned. The second round of «Laço de Sangue» at Lethes, takes place on April 20th and 21st, at 21 pm, and on April 30, at 22 pm. Tickets cost ten euros, with the usual discounts.
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