JOHN ROMÃO e ROMEU RUNA
QUE DIFICIL É SER UM DEUS
Everything Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote and filmed is linked to the dimension of the intimate, the life of the human body. In Pocilga, bodies and pigs are subject to the same concealment, a single depreciation. Pasolini makes a metaphorical portrait of human decay and degradation that spread in capitalist society, telling the story of a man whose passion is a cause for scandal. What does its diversity, deviant love, and monstrosity, have to do with the massacre of millions of bodies in Nazi Germany? A political alliance makes a pact to silence "all that does not live," that is, everything that is not seen in the eyes of the other.
PERFORMANCES
CENTRO CULTURAL DA GAFANHA DA NAZARÉ (GAFANHA DA NAZARÉ, PT)
TEATRO VIRIATO (VISEU, PT)
CENTRO DE ARTES DE OVAR (OVAR, PT)
TEATRO ACADÉMICO DE GIL VICENTE (COIMBRA, PT)
FESTIVAL TERRE DE PAROLES (NORMANDIA, FR)
Translation and direction: John Romão
With: Albano Jerónimo, Ana Bustorff, André Reis, Cláudio da Silva, João Lagarto, John Romão, Mariana Tengner Barros, Guilherme Moura / Miguel da Cunha, Paulo Pinto / Miguel Loureiro, Pedro Lacerda, Wesley Barros and the participation of extras (recruited in each city)
Set design: F. Ribeiro with John Romão
Lighting design: José Álvaro Correia
Music: Nicolai Sarbib
Sound design: João Bento
Wardrobe: Carolina Queirós Machado
Wardrobe assistant: Rita Lopes Alves
Direction assistant: Solange Freitas
Technical direction: Carlos Ramos
Executive production: Stage One
Co-production: Colectivo84, Culturgest, Teatro Virgínia, Teatro Viriato, Teatro Nacional São João
Film and montage: João Gambino
The show was a coproduction with 5 Sentidos
Project funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture - DGARTES