As costas de Bernardo Passos

Miguel Castro Caldas text

Filipe Pinto digital drawing in real time

Afonso de Melo reader

“The world is always changing. The photo on Google maps of D. Sebastião square is prior to works that have just been carried out. I walked across the square, past people I didn't know. No one noticed me, no one remembered my face. If I stayed a few more weeks maybe people would start wondering about who this stranger was. If I started to go to the same café every day, or if I had a cough and went into a pharmacy, then, the question would arise, why did that guy go into the pharmacy? Who is he? Where does he come from? What does he think? What does he want?

I just wanted to stop the cough and did not even know if, in one of the four pharmacies of S. Brás de Alportel they would give me a monarchical or republican remedy. But I was open-minded, after all I was just a stranger. Everything changed when I asked where I could find the poet Bernardo de Passos.”

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Credits

text: Miguel Castro Caldas

lecture: Afonso de Melo

digital drawing in real time: Filipe Pinto

acknowledgments: Valentim Pereira, Patrícia Reis, Custódio Cavaco, Graça Passos, Emanuel Sanches, Gonçalo Duarte Gomes, Custódia Reis

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Bio Miguel Castro Caldas

He writes for the stage and for the role, translates and teaches playwriting in the Theater degree at the School of Arts and Design. He worked in theatre with Bruno Bravo, Jorge Silva Melo, Gonçalo Waddington, Miguel Loureiro, António Simão, Tiago Rodrigues, Teresa Sobral, Raquel Castro, Pedro Gil, Lígia Soares, Gonçalo Amorim, Rute Rocha, among others. Some of his texts are published in the collection Livrinhos de Teatro dos Artistas Unidos, the publishers Ambar, Douda Correria, Mariposa Azual, Culturgest, Primeiros Sintomas, and in the magazines Artistas Unidos, Fatal and Blimunda. He translated Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Ali Smith, William Maxwell, Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, Senel Paz, among others.

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