Lama - João de Brito

The dynamics and Chekhovian ambience point to the cold, to days going by always the same, and to the difficulty of parting ways with those spaces one remembers and where one interacted and shared. In Seattle, both hands and hearts freeze, and the imposing rain is a soul storm, the same inhabiting and inhaling the grunge spirit one experiences here. Seattle is the metaphor of dreams, of those that are just a memory of a place one never inhabited anyhow. The passing of time and the rhythm of days come across as a paradoxical escape that only postpones the inevitable facing of change. This scenic experiment lasts roughly one hour, and it is a synecdoche of a movement as fleeting as Kurt Cobain and company’s movement. “Better to burn at one go than to extinguish little by little.”       


João de Brito has a degree in theatre (actors training) from the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. He co-created the performances “Carripana”, “NOVO_Título Provisório”, “Ainda Assim”, “A História que não queria ser Livro”, “Habitamus”, “T.3”, “JBWB -900”, “És-passos” and “Brilharetes”. He staged the performances “Cataplay”, “Leonce und Lena” [Leonce and Lena], by Georg Buchner, “Manuel In”, “Actrizes”, based on Lucien Lambert, Chekhov, Oscar Wilde and Voltaire, “Barafunda”, based on Raul Brandão, and “Comida”, by Miguel Castro Caldas. He regularly works in television and film. He co-founded and is the artistic director of LAMA.