RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 51

April 2006 

  

PART XVIII:

Theater

 
See also items 62, 83, 165, 178, 182, 183 & 186.

202. AL BERTO, pseud [i.e. Alberto Raposo Pidiwell Tavares, 1948-1997]. Apresentação da noite. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2006. Obras de Al Berto, 6. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 61 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-37-1085-4. $20.00

The original edition of this work appeared in a volume of texts for the theater, Novos Autores, Número 32 in the collection Repertório da Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores, published in 1985 to mark the 60th anniversary of this cooperative. See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 17-8.

 
203. BRANDÃO, Fiama Hasse Pais. Noites de Inês-Constança [peça em três actos e um epílogo]. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2005. Obras de Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, 1. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 77 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-37-1051-X. $20.00

Play by the well-known, prize-winning poet, born Lisbon, 1938. See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 77-8; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 480-1.

 
204. CALDAS, Miguel Castro. O homem do pé direito; O homem da picareta. Lisbon: Artistas Unidos / Cotovia, 2005. Livrinhos de Teatro, 15. 12°, orig. prtd. wrps. 83 pp., (2 ll.), portrait in text. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-8972-00-8. $18.00

The author was born in Lisbon in 1972. His first novel, Queres crescer e depois não cabes na banheira (2002), and his short work of fiction As sete ilhas de Lisboa (2004), were both published in the collection Biblioteca Ambar de Bolso. He has also written several plays.
 

205. CEBOLA, Carlos Dinis Tomás. Em Montemor, o Maior. . .: João Cidade, teatro; romagem a Montemor, poesia. Preface by Carlos Manuel Rodrigues Pinto de Sá. Lisbon: Colibri, and Montemor-o-Novo: Câmara Municipal, 2006. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 138 pp., (1 l.), illus. ISBN: 972-772-624-0. $25.00

 
206. GALHOS, Claudia. Corpo de cordas: 10 anos de Companhia Paulo Ribeiro. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2005. Arte e Produção, 58. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 190 pp., (1 l.), numerous illus., some in color ISBN: 972-37-1070-6. $35.00

 
207. JUDICE, Nuno. Teatro. Lisbon: Artistas Unidos / Cotovia, 2005. Livrinhos de Teatro, 16. 12°, orig. prtd. wrps. 115 pp., (2 ll.), portrait in text. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-99450-9-8. $18.00

Includes the following: "O que eu te queria dizer, o que eu queria que me dissesses", "Colóquio de amor", "O crime perfeito", "Area de serviço", and "O regresso de Fausto". Poet, playwright, critic, and author of fiction, Nuno Júdice was born in Mexilhoeira Grande, Algarve, 1949. Having received a Ph.D. in medieval literature from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1989, he was responsible for critical editions of the Sonetos of Antero de Quental, and the Cancioneiro de D. Dinis. His poetry has received the Prize of the Pen Clube in 1985, the Prémio D. Dinis of the Fundação Casa de Mateus in 1990, and that of the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores in 1994. His novel Por todos os séculos was awarded the Prémio Bordalo by the Casa da Imprensa. His fiction and poetry have been widely translated into Spanish, and some of his work exists as well in Italian, French, English, Danish, Dutch, Czech, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, and Hebrew. See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 252-3; also Fernando J.B. Martinho in Biblos, II, 1300-1.
 

 
208. MENDES, José Maria Vieira. T1; Se o mundo não fosse assim. Lisbon: Artistas Unidos, 2004. Livrinhos de Teatro, 6. 12°, orig. prtd. wrps. 117 pp., (1 l.), portrait in text. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-95408-7-X. $18.00

The author has published a number of plays. He has also translated Samuel Beckett, Harold Pintor, and Heiner Müller. He has collaborated in the review Artistas unidos, edited an edition of Brecht in Portuguese, and co-translated a volume of stories by Kafka. In 2000 he frequented the International Summer Residency of the Royal Court Theatre, London. He worked with Artistas Unidas between 2000 and 2002, and at the time this volume appeared was working as an editorial assistant with Livros Cotovia.

 
209. PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius (d. 184 B.C.). Comédias. Introdução geral de Aires Pereira do Couto. Introdução, tradução do Latim e notas de Carlos Alberto Louro Fonseca, Aires Pereira do Couto, Walter de Medeiros, Cláudia Teixeira e Helena Costa Toipa. Vol. I. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, and Coimbra: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, 2006. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 569 pp., (2 ll.). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1429-5. $75.00