RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 53

August 2006

 
PART XVII:

Theater

 
See also items 135, 149, 162, 242, 249, 264 & 265.

204. ALVARES, Afonso (fl. ca. 1525-1560). Obras de Afonso Alvares. Introdução e edição de José Camões. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2006. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 346 pp., (1 l. adv., 1 l. colophon), extensively annotated, glossary, bibliography. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1498-8. $45.00

Excellent critical edition. On this dramatic poet of the school of Gil Vicente, first friend but then bitter enemy of António Ribeiro Chiado, perhaps the son of a slave brought to Portugal from Guiné (but said by some to be the son of his master, D. Afonso de Portugal, Bishop of Evora), see Teresa Araújo in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 29; Eduíno de Jesus in Biblos I, 182-4; Innocêncio I, 8; VIII, 10; and XXII, 16; Barbosa Machado I, 28.

 
205. CORREIA, Alfredo, and Helder Pacheco. Porto profundo: adaptação para o teatro de textos de Helder Pacheco. Porto: Afrontamento, 2006. Colecção Teatro, 10. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 170 pp., (3 ll.), illus. in color, glossary. ISBN: 972-36-0829-4. $20.00
 

206. RAVENHILL, Mark, Hélia Correia, and Jacinto Lucas Pires. Cidadania; O segredo de Chantel; Octávio no mundo. Introduction by Francisco Frazão. Lisbon: Cotovia, 2006. Panos: Palcos Novos Palavras Novas. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 132 pp., (1 l. colophon). One of 500 copies. ISBN: 972-795-166-X. $20.00

This is the first volume in a new series, Panos: Palcos Novos Palavras Novas, a project of Culturgest, whose express aim is to unite contemporary drama with student or juvenile theater. The two plays by Portuguese authors were written for this volume. The translation of Citizenship was selected to accompany them; there is a single page "Nota sobre a tradução de Cidadania" by Jorge Louraço Figueira. On Hélio Correia (b. Lisbon, 1949), see Maria de Lourdes Netto Simões in Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 140-1. Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Porto in 1974. He has written a novel, Do sol (2004), a volume with very short stories, Para averiguar do seu grau de pureza (1996), another with three pieces of short fiction and two screenplays,2 Filmes e Algo de Algodão (1999); a number of plays, including Universos e frigoríficos (1997) and Arranha-céus (1999), and Escrever, falar: dois diálogos e um monólogo (2002); and a novella, Azul-turquesa, which first appeared in June 1998; a second edition came out in July of the same year. He has also written a volume of impressions of Japan: Livro usado (numa viagem ao Japão) (2001).

 
207. REBELLO, Luiz Francisco. O essencial sobre D. João da Câmara. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2006. Colecção Essencial, 80. 16°, orig. prtd. wrps. 85 pp., (3 ll. adv., 1 l. colophon), illus. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1444-9. $12.00

 
208. TRINDADE, Luís. António Silva. Lisbon: Temas e Debates, 2005. Fotobiografias Século XX. Folio (30 x 23.8 cm.), publ. buckram with d.j. 199, (1) pp., profusely illus., some illus. in color. ISBN: 972-759-770-X. $65.00

 
209. VASQUES, Eugénia. João Mota, o pedagogo teatral: metodologia e criação. Lisbon: Colibri / Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, 2006. Colecção Caminhos do Conhecimento, 2. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with d.j. 108 pp., (1 l.), illus., footnotes, bibliography. ISBN: 972-772-619-4. $22.00
 

210. VITORINO, Ana, Carlos Costa, Catarina Martins, et al. Visões Uteis: Cidade dos diários. Preface by Eugénia Vasques. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2006. Biblioteca & Aquela Vez. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 73 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 989-552-170-7. $22.00

Cidade dos diários had its opening in Porto at the Balleteatro Auditório, 13 May 2005. This "espectáculo" was a co-production of the theater company Visões Uteis with the Teatro Nacional São João.