RTP2 airs this Sunday, the 30th, at 21 pm, the documentary «É p'ra laugh! What is made of Teatro de Revista?», by José Mendes and Paulo Seabra.
With a long history of 160 years, Teatro de Revista, from the beginning, conquered the status of the most popular genre of show in the country.
It is a comprehensive format, where everything fits: performance, music, dance or fantasy. Openly or between the lines, according to the dictates of politics and its censorship reveries.
The magazine denounced and criticized the “things of the nation” making people laugh and making people think. And it still does today. But to what extent does the physical degradation of Parque Mayer (its favorite place that celebrates its 2012th anniversary in 90) reflect the ruinous decline of the theater magazine?
And what does it take to make a great magazine these days?
«It's for laughing! What is made of Teatro de Revista?» is an inquiry in the form of a documentary, in which figures such as Francisco Nicholson, Fernando Mendes, José Raposo, Marina Mota, Maria João Abreu and the young Flávio Gil put the dots in the is about how the past weighs on today's magazine like a ghost .
While recreational societies around the country continue to keep the amateur genre alive, but with contagious enthusiasm, the magazine is now divided between looking for new paths or letting yourself stay where you are.
And she will live for as long as the soul of a people lasts if she manages to do more than give her leg with dignity so as not to struggle and die.
A documentary by
José Mendes and Paulo Seabra
Argument
Jose Mendes
Producer
Paulo Martins
Produced by:
Paulo Seabra
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