How do you see the theater in a national scale?
It's a complicated question. I think that are emerging younger directors, whose proposals are written in the scene. The new drama that is performed on stage while it is happening. In which the actors do little improvisations from a subject, and they and are the creators of this movement, bring the drama to the scene. This actor also appearing as a creator in the truest sense of the word. That is, an actor with independent thought that does its job and is not waiting for the director to say something.
And the Portuguese public adheres?
Yes, but depends on the location. In Lisbon there are public, but not much. They see what they are used to. And sometimes only public connected to the theater. And there are older people who go see the shows because of the portuguese revue, which is a tradition that we should maintain. There is very little audience.
Even when are staged plays with known actors of television?
Yes, those fill theathers. It is always a decoy, and they appear on posters. The theatrical marketing if you can call it like that, is directed to do so. When there are musicals, you see them in the malls to entice people to go see this kind of theater.
So whats missing to draw public to the theatre? Do you think is a lack mentality to cultural events, or it is also an educational lack?
I won't say words and statements already made this year and said it last year, because whenever we speak of the new drama and theater, to see and not heard. But we're going to listen and not to see because it is a big bummer, because we get angry I quote Peter Brooks, the devil is the boredom. Many people on this point on always speaks in goverment aid and I personally think you can make a good show without great support. But it depends on each company, and depends if they have a space, because there's the need to maintain them and this requires money. You must also pay the actors and creators, who in turn must pay social security and they work passing green receipts every month, unfortunately. I do not know if what has to change is the economical and social mentality. One can not speak of one without the other. Is not enough to say the Ministry of Culture, we simply can't do that. We have the example of Camacha which is a small location with little support and still is producing a festival that brings theater work and are to be congratulated, there are municipalities in the country with more money and spend it instead on a single production, whem they could invest it in various groups.
