Se eu vivesse tu morrias and other texts

Authors

Miguel Castro Caldas
Keywords: Theatre, Miguel Castro Caldas, Infidelity, Marriage

Synopsis

Moving the chronology a bit, it is possible to trace with these pieces by Miguel Castro Caldas (MCC) a narrative arc of conjugality: the first steps of a couple in the epilogue of The Killers (2011), the marriage proposal in Coal On Canvas (2012), infidelity in the Restoration of Conjugal Society (2010), life with children in Wilderness (2016), again infidelity in If I lived you would die (2016), loneliness (widowhood?). ) of I don't usually talk to you (2017).
Why this interest in the institution of marriage? Perhaps it is precisely because it is such a conventional situation that even subversion (or betrayal) is commonplace: from "boy meets girl" to "happily ever after" or not at all, between getting married and getting tired, this is a tired subject from which all variations have been experienced. [...] Marriage is a narrative formula that MCC uses less to dismantle its ideology than to dispense with the need for a narrative itself-and so use time in another way.
MCC's writing practices a certain disrespect for institutions, starting with its own writing.

Author Biography

Miguel Castro Caldas

Miguel Castro Caldas (1972). He writes plays that he once gave to a director, but now he prefers to put them on stage with the help of friends. He has done dramaturgy for shows, translates occasionally and teaches. Some of his plays are published in the collection Livrinhos de Teatro dos Artistas Unidos (Cotovia Books), in Culturgest, First Symptoms and in the magazines Artistas Unidos, Fatal and Blimunda. She has published prose in Ambar and Douda Correria. He has translated Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Ali Smith, William Maxwell, Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, Senel Paz, among others.
He won an Honorable Mention in 2005 for his playwright activity through the Association of Theater Critics, and the SPA 2017 award for best Portuguese Text Represented with If I lived you would die. He was nominated for the same award and in the same year with the play Terreno Selvagem.

Se eu vivesse tu morrias
Published
August 24, 2018

Details about this monograph

ISBN-13 (15)
978-989-26-1659-9
doi
10.14195/978-989-26-1659-9