The buttery youth

"Bolo do caco" was born from an indomitable will inner to youth that is to make a difference. It is a theater group that is distinguished by the balance between intellectual and popular. The beautiful and the banal. For the non-conformism that insists on plague society and aim to depose. Now they have a fixed space, where you can also show up in the number of 116 of Santa Maria in Funchal.

Tell me a little about the theater group "bolo do caco".
Xavier Miguel: The group emerged in 2011. We did a play that is "the ingenious doctor" by Moliere and have travel a bit all over the island. Then we did some animations, including a week of poetry.

It was necessary to create another group of amateur theater in Madeira? There are already several. Where do you differ?
XM: It's true, there are some. Not that there are immense. There are groups that make one play and end. I decided to create one that follows our ideas, which reflects a popular theater, with more fun and dynamic content, from an intellectual side and the opposite, a more popular one. I like that balance. We have intellectual jokes and "silly" ones. I like this mix, because there are groups that just do comedies and other more serious theater, but I wanted something very unique, one that reflected our style.

How many members you have so far?
XM: We are 10 in all, although we do not have a permanent staff. There are those eight to ten who work in all plays. For this particular one, "fish-tails, episodes of the old quarter" we have a team of 20 people.

Tell me a little of this play, these particular texts?
XM: The choice of text came up with the space. The old quarter. It is an urban area that has undergone a social and economic expansion and in cultural terms that had not yet happened. We had the "home of the poets" that had two exhibitions and is always closed. The "arts space" on the other hand, you always have the same things and painters complain that they do not sell the paintings on display and otherwise, there is nothing. And so we thought of combining the concept of the stage off the stage, which goes towards the idea of ​​the festival on, but in this case with the theater. The idea is to create a temporary area, but fixed. The house is the theater group "bolo do caco" and "mad space invaders" and we use it to publicize our work and welcome others. We lacked a cultural space in this area. In parallel, we wanted to do a play about the ancient city of Funchal, the old town. I've been researching and there was nothing written, and then I spoke with writers, search at home and found the book of Joao Carlos Abreu, "Joana, fish tail," which I had not occurred me before. And there was a click. It is a book that portrays characters and episodes that happened in real life, however amazing it may seem, it all true. The day-to-day life of the children, the women, the prostitutes, the fishermen and their personal mess. Of the boys who dived on the beach to catch the foreign coins. I got this text, because I thought it was beautiful and poetic. As a theater group always we have an intellectual content adapted it with a style "with garlic and butter." It is a scene that fluctuates widely among kids who play football and the couple that brawl in the street. The drunken woman who yells at the other woman drunk, because she stole her boyfriend. It is a play of equilibrium.

Why "bolo do caco"?
XM: it's all about Madeira. I'm linking it to the island, is popular. It is a group with cultural roots, old, has tradition and history. The "bolo do caco" is a food that is tasty and satiating, art and culture also feed society and is also fun.