What happens when a master puts 59 amateurs on stage? Pure theatrical chaos.
Luis Miguel Cintra, renowned actor, stage director and director of the Portuguese theatre company Teatro da Cornucópia, staged the play Illusion in early 2014. This play was based upon texts by Federico García Lorca. However, the 119th company's show was no ordinary show, for in the cast there were 59 non-actors, amateurs and theatre students.
Direction
Cintra's patient, almost spiritual guidance of chaos.
Production
The radical gamble of 59 non-actors on one stage.
Director
Sofia Marques
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Teatro da Cornucópia was Portugal's most radical theatre collective for 42 years; this was their penultimate production before closing.
Cintra specifically chose Lorca's fragmentary, unfinished texts to mirror the 'unfinished' quality of amateur performance itself.
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