Theatre

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The theatre was too much of a crazy passion now experienced as a serene love.

The overstatement of the superlative is a rigorous figure of speech in the qualification of this special relationship.

The first symptoms of this passion appeared in the university backstage. To be part of the theatre, to belong to an academic troop was a seminal idea, and in the group hence created I learned to act in French. I was an actor in Jules Romain's Knock and later in Ionesco´s Rhinocéros; both acted in Molière's language. In this adventure, also sheared with Luís Miguel Cintra and Jorge Silva Melo, among others, we learned the theatre carpentry with Professor François Castex. However, soon I found out that the good actors were they and not I.

The inquirer, who inside me lives, raised discredit wages to the performances on stage and soon exhibited a competent march for the abandonment of the Letras University group. I saw António José Silva playing " O Anfitrião" in a place that used to be mine- a first balcony seat. Short time after the colleagues deepened their competencies in an English school they founded a theatre company- Cornucópia.

I also emigrated and in Holland I learnt to sail deeper and deeper in the belly button of my world where I melted such enormous passion in serene love, exalted in thoughts on many sketched pieces of paper.

Seven years after the fire was extinct I found out my role in theatre. Many were the miles of written lines until I reached Saltimbancos, my first play. I wrote eight more plays, in-between: in some I was just the author, in others I staged, at not time I acted again. All of them met the greatest joy of theatre- the stage boards.

In 1997, the last written and acted play "Auto das Muy Desvairadas Partes e da Índia" was presented under the pseudonym, from an Anonymous Author of the 19th century. Here is the secret disclosed, until now only sheared with actors and technicians from the D. Maria II National Theatre that took part in the show