Breath Carina Vidal; Ana Teresa Russo

Breath de Marta Vale

Respiração por Salomé Branco

Beckett's works

Peter Brook sobre Beckett

Beckett’s plays are symbols in an exact sense of the word. A false symbol is soft and vague: a true symbol is hard and clear. When we say ‘symbolic’ we often mean something drearily obscure: a true symbol is specific, it is the only form a certain truth can take… We get nowhere if we expect to be told what they mean, yet each one has a relation with us we can’t deny. If we accept this, the symbol opens in us a great wondering O.

Peter Brook: The Empty Space

Peter Brook sobre Beckett

Beckett does not say ‘no’ with satisfaction: he forges his merciless ‘no’ out of a longing for ‘yes,’ and so his despair is the negative from which the contour of its opposite can be drawn.

Peter Brook: The Empty Space

desAliento Beckett

Breath

Waiting for Godot

Play

BREATH (1969) by Samuel Beckett

Curtain

1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds.

2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum together in about ten seconds.

3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold for about five seconds.

Curtain

RUBBISH

No verticals, all scattered and lying

CRY

Instant of recorded vagitus. Important that two cries be identical, switching on and off strictly synchronized light and breath.

BREATH

Amplified recording

MAXIMUM LIGHT

Not bright. If 0 = dark and 10= bright, light should move from about 3 to 6 and back.

Samuel Beckett

Happy Days by Samuel Beckett

Not I by Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett's Breath by Damien Hirst

Dramaturgia do Espaço

O workshop em dramaturgia do espaço, centra-se na abordagem da obra de Samuel Beckett. Num primeiro momento, foi feita uma contextualização do autor e obra, através da uma leitura acompanhada de um dos textos, seguida de exemplos de encenação, em várias épocas e múltiplos contextos culturais e sociais . A partir desta introdução, foram propostas actividades de grupo que visaram a interpretação dinâmica do texto Breath de Beckett. Pretendeu-se que as palavras e, no caso específico de Beckett,o silêncio, ganhassem expressão através da criação de um “espaço” semiótico, capaz de reflectir a interpretação do texto dramático. Os trabalhos que aqui partilham o espaço com algumas peças a memória futura no espaço mais dinâmico da actualidade: o virtual!