Synopsis
“Numbers” is a comedy in which a group of traveling artists multiply themselves in various roles to present a series of numbers inspired by the circus tradition.
A show that translates the artist's love for their audience and bet on human talent to perform the alchemy that transforms the poverty of material resources into art, becoming a metaphor not only for the situation of the artist today, but also for the Brazilian people themselves. Also he, an alchemist who transforms his material misery into art, joy, and beauty.
Duration: 60 minutes
Age rating 14+
Brief history
Since its premiere in 2008, the play has participated in several festivals, such as the Festival Internacional de Acciones Escénicas (Lima, Peru), 17° Festival de Teatro de Florianópolis – Isnard Azevedo (Florianópolis – SC), and has won several awards, such as the Best Show Award at the Festival de Teatro da Região Metropolitana de Campinas (2008), and the Best Show, Best Ensemble of Actors, and Best Costume Design Awards at the 24th Festival Internacional de Teatro Universitário de Blumenau (FITUB), in 2011.
When the show was presented at FITUB, theater director Marco Antonio Rodrigues, in a review published at the festival, wrote that "This is how it is, the inflation of tramp clowns invading the stages, the squares, the corners of the country (...) Therefore, it is difficult to make a tramp clown show without us getting sick of the smell. But this is not a tramp clown show, it is a show of clowns from a peripheral circus, with all the sophistication of its roots. (...) Of good circus, related to this circus without tent from the street vendors, people with cunning and mischief capable of sold us a bill of goods, taking home miraculous herb knowing that it is just grass. And this, only for the pleasure of applauding and sharing the magic of the artist so shrewd in their profession of living from labor, of finding the silver lining, of doing the impossible to be able to survive."
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Play duration
60min
Artists
6
Presentations
118
Awards
20
Direction
Roberto Mallet
Text
Os Geraldos e Roberto Mallet
Scenography
Roberto Mallet e Os Geraldos
Costume design
Os Geraldos
Makeup
Os Geraldos e Heloisa Cardoso
Lighting
Douglas Novais e Roberto Mallet
Light and sound technician
João Victor Fernandes
Production
Os Geraldos
Cast
Carolina Delduque, Douglas Novais, Gileade Batistta, Julia Cavalcanti, Paula M. Guerreiro e Railan Andrade