RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 48

September 2005

 
PART XIX:

Theater

 
See also items 137, 309, 310 & 311.

237. CAMÕES, Luís [Vaz] de. Teatro completo de Camões. Prefácio, notas e fixação do texto: Vanda Anastácio. Porto: Caixotim, 2005. Obras de Luís de Camões. 8°, publ. illus. bds. Color frontisportrait, 458 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 972-8651-59-7. The well-annotated preface occupies pp. [7]-73. $35.00
 

238. CASTRO, Paulo. Red Shoes. Prefácio de Jorge Reis-Sá; Posfácio de Paulo Brandão. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2004. & Aquela Vez. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 30 pp, (1 l.). ISBN: 989-552-085-9. $15.00

Despite the title, this book is entirely in Portuguese. The author, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, published a "romance" O caso R. (2004) in Brazil. He has contributed to various anthologies of poems since 1989, and has written a column for the newspaper Correio popular. At the time this volume appeared he was living in Campinhas, São Paulo.

 
239. EIRAS, Pedro. Recitativo dos livros do deserto, com ilustrações do autor. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2004. Campo do Teatro, 22. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 91 pp. ISBN: 972-610-834-9. $18.00

Born Porto, 1975, the author was a doctoral candidate in twentieth-century Portuguese literature at the Faculdade de Letras of the Universidade do Porto. At the time this book appeared he was docente de literatura portuguesa at the same Faculdade. He has published three previous plays, and two novels; his essays have appeared in literary reviews such as Relâmpago, Ciberkiosk, Jornal de Letras, A phala, and Século de ouro. Various theatrical pieces by him have been performed in Porto, Coimbra, Bratislava, Nice and Solonica.

 
240. FIGUEIRA, Jorge Louraço. Xmas qd Kiseres [Christmas quando quiseres]. Colaboração de Antonio Mercado. A partir de uma ideia de Manuel Guerra. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2004. Campo do Teatro, 24. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 93 pp. ISBN: 972-610-896-9. $20.00

The author was born in Nazaré, 1973. He has written the following plays: "O espantalho teso" (published in Dramaturgias Emergentes, vol. I, colecção Cadernos Dramat), Mata-borrão, Auto da revisitação (with Pedro Eiras), Carinhos de choque, and Flash Motel. From 1999 to 2000 he participated in the Oficina de Escrita Teatral do Dramat, in Porto, and in 2003 was at the International Residency of the Royal Court Theatre, London. In 2004 he received the scholarship "Criar Lusofonia" from the Centro Nacional de Cultura, which was used to write Círio dos salvados.
 

241. ROSA, Armando Nascimento. A última lição de hipátia, seguido de O túnel dos ratos. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2004. Campo do Teatro, 23. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 308 pp., (3 ll., 1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-610-892-6. $30.00

Born Evora, 1966, the playwright, essayist, songwriter Armando Nascimento Rosa has had seven books published, the majority of which were theatrical pieces. His Lianor no pais sem pilhas (2001) was awarded the Prémio Revelação Ribeiro da Fonte, 2000. At the time this volume appeared he was teaching the theory and aesthetics of theatrical writing at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa.

 
242. VITORINO, Ana, Carlos Costa and Catarina Martins. Visões úteis: 667 - O vizinho da besta. Preface by Eduardo Condorcet. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2004. & Aquela Vez. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 86 pp, (1 l.). ISBN: 989-552-086-7. $20.00