Mindelact

Mindelact is a theatrical association in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. Each year, it organizes the Mindelo Theatrical Festival (Festival do Teatro do Mindelo)

When the association was founded in 1996 by Elisângelo Ramos and Portuguese actor João Branco, it was the most popular in Cape Verde along with its festival, today it is the second most important and is Barlavento's most important theatrical festival. Several plays were performed with the Grupo de Teatro do Centro Cultural Português do Mindelo, founded in 1993, two years before the foundation of Mindelact.

In 2001, the association celebrated its 5th anniversary of its foundation and in 2006, its 10th anniversary.

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Mindelo Theatrical Festival

Its first edition was made in 1995. The festival today is considered one of the most important event in African theater. As of 2016, it had recently done 22 editions of the festival.[1]

One of the plays performed in one of the early editions were Cuscujada by Sergio Frusoni.

  • I (1st) - 1995 - First edition
  • XIX (19th) - 2013: 50th performance of The Tempest (Tempestade, ALUPEK: Tempestadi)
  • XX (20th) - 2014: Appearances: Mel Gambôa[2]

Plays performed by the GTCCPM

Several plays were performed before Mindelact was founded in 1996. Some of the plays are world renowned and some of them are Capeverdean. One of the actors and performers included João Branco.

  • 1991: Quem me dera ser Onda, novel by Mário Rui - GTCCP
  • 1993: Fome de 47 - unknown author
  • 1993: A Estátua e Etc. - collective text
  • 1994: Our Fisherman (Nos Pescadores) - collective text
  • 1994: Chico - collective text
  • 1995: Gin Tonic Surrealist - partly by Mário Henrique Leiria
  • 1996: Adaptation of a book by Oscar Wilde
  • 1997 and 2007: A play, an adaptation of a book by Garcia Lorca
  • 1998: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  • 1999: Os dois irmãos, adaptation of a novel by Germano Almeida
  • 1999: Figa Canhota, collective text
  • 1999: Catchupa, collective text
  • 2000: Agravos de um Artista, adaptation of a short story by Germano Almeida
  • 2001: Count of Abranhos, adaption of a book by Eça de Queirós
  • 2002: Salon by Mário Lúcio Sousa
  • 2003: King Lear by William Shakespeare, co-produced with Atelier Teatrakácia
  • 2004: Tertúlia, based on the poems
  • 2005: High Seas - a poem by Mrozek and Eugénio Tavares
  • 2006: "Women of Lajinha" ("Mulheres na Lajinha"), a part of the novel O mar na Lajinha by Germano Almeida
  • 2007: A Caderneta, by Baltasar Lopes da Silva
  • 2009: The Fire (No Inferno), based on a book by Arménio Vieira
  • 2009: O Jardim do Dr. Gordner Brickers, by Caplan Neves
  • 2012: Stand Up Comedy Pará Moss, collective texts with Trupe Pará (Pará Troop)
  • 2012: Theory of Silence (Teorema do Silêncio) by Caplan Neves
  • 2012: As Mindelenses (The Mindelians, sometimes as Gramportians) - collective texts with Trupe Pará (Pará Troop)
  • 2013: Sete Pequenas Peça, Para Sete Grandes Crises - collective text with Trupe Pará (Pará Troop)
  • 2013: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  • 2016 - Strangers by José Luis Peixoto, co-produced with Teatro Rivoli in Porto, Portugal

References
  1. Mindelact website
  2. Oceanpress article Archived 2016-10-20 at the Wayback Machine, 2014
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