Reading Doc Comparato’s Plays
Publishers used to avoid certain types of books because they were considered bad sellers: plays, poetry, short stories, biographies… With the e-book everything has changed. All genres are welcome. And we decided to invest in drama, in the theatrical work of dramatist Doc Comparato.
The author lived in many different countries and for so his work is very diversified. His book on scriptwriting has been translated into many different languages. What about his plays?
His work is divided into three trilogies: Tomorrow’s Trilogy, composed by plays written in the 1980’s and 1990’s: Plêiades, O Beijo da Louca, for which he won the National Theatre Award, and O Despertar dos Desatinados (The Rainforest), not yet staged.
After that came the Trilogy of Time, with plays written until the year 2000: Nostradamus, Michelangelo and O CÃrculo das Luzes – all of which have been staged in Brazil and Italy. Nostradamus won the Anna Magnani Award.
And the last Trilogy of Imagination which is comprised of his most recent work, plays that had not been published up until now and still not staged.
And it is precisely with his new work that we are going to start. The plays are: Sempre, Jamais and Eterno (The Secret Days of Orson Welles In Brazil). With a very powerful imagetic capacity, he brings to life a writer of children’s books, Calabar a traitor and the secret days of Orson Welles in Brazil, in texts apparently simple but full of hidden meanings.
It is worth reading and imagining the plays.
Apart from the trilogies, Doc also has other plays that we are going to include in the second wave of digital editions. The children’s play A IncrÃvel Viagem, Lição N.º 18 and A Misteriosa Morte do Supremo Imperador da China e Outras Histórias.
(written between 1977 and 1982)
PLÊIADES or Pequenas Cirurgias para Aracnídeos.
O BEIJO DA LOUCA© – (AWARD: "Serviço Nacional do Teatro", Brazil, 1979)
THE RAINFOREST.
(written between 1985 and 2000)
NOSTRADAMUS© (O prisioneiro do Futuro) – (Award ANA MAGNANI/STAZIONE, Italy, 2003/2004)
MICHELANGELOS© (O prisioneiro do Presente) – (For the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil, 2000)
THE CIRCLE OF LIGHTS; (O prisioneiro do Passado)
(Projects starting 2000)
SEMPRE; (Ou, o Caso da Moça de Gargantilha ou na Intimidade das Coisas) – (Written in Barcelona, 2003)
NUNCA; (Calabar, um elogio à traição Ou Na posse das coisas) (Written in Barcelona, february 2006)
THE SECRET DAYS OF ORSON WELLES IN BRAZIL; (or Xanadu, no limite da criatividade ou No inalcançável das coisas) – (Written in Copacabana, July de 2006).
A INCRIVEL VIAGEM© (Ou, O Inacreditável é Possível, o Impossível não é) – 1985 - project written for Children)
AS TIAS © co-author: Aguinaldo Silva (1982)
“A MISTERIOSA MORTE DO SUPREMO IMPERADOR DA CHINA e OUTRAS HISTÓRIAS” © (2011)
THEATRE SAMPLES 'N STORYLINES IN ENGLISH
THE SECRET DAYS OF ORSON WELLES IN BRAZIL - SAMPLE
NOSTRADAMUS - SAMPLE
THE RAINFOREST - SAMPLE
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF SUPREME EMPEROR - SAMPLE
OTHERS STORYLINES TO BE ADAPTED TO MOVIES