The Book Keeper of Rua Dos Douradores

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Event The Book Keeper of Rua Dos Douradores
Venue Sidetrack Theatre, Marrickville, NSW
First Date 22 August 2002
Last Date 14 September 2002
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere Yes
Description Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily ...Seated at his desk in Lisbon's Rua dos Douradores, Bernado Soares an assistant bookkeeper in a small import/export company observes the world around him. Although his existence has the appearance of ordinary uneventfulness, in his imagination he journeys to the near and far discovering as he goes the depths of human despair and the dizzy exaltation of high achievement. When the enigmatic Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa died in 1935, he left a trunk containing 25, 426 items ... a vast collection of poems, fragments, plays and journals, typed or scrawled in three different languages in notebooks, scraps of paper, serviettes and used envelopes. The Sidetrack company have delved into the celebrated archive to create their own order out of the chaotic universe of Pessoa's trunk.
Description Source Production Company
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Contemporary
Subjects Multicultural
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Adam Hatzimanolis Actor
Arky Michael Actor
Georgina Naidu Actor
Silvio Ofria Actor
Carlos Gomes Adaptor
Don Mamouney Adaptor
Fernando Pessoa Author
Hope Csutoros Composer
Sue Liolio Costume Designer
Carlos Gomes Designer
Carlos Gomes Director
Ian Bowie Production Manager
Assad Abdi Video Artist
Don Mamouney Writer
Resources
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Newspaper SMH Metro August 23- 29 2002
Sidetrack Archive Box 22
Poster Held in Sidetrack Performance Group Archive
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 23249