Manaus Ágil tourism and culture of the AmazonThe 75-minute tragicomedy is a social and political critique of the early 1920s 20th century cultural doings
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After premiering on the Amazon circuit in 2019, the tragicomedy by Cia. de Teatro Apareceu a Margarida "Ambrozhya and the Phantasm of Art" returns for a single performance this Friday, 24/1, at 7pm, at the Installation Theater (Rua Frei José dos Inocentes, s/n, Centro), with free admission. The play, written by Sérgio Cardoso and directed by Douglas Rodrigues, is now in its 12th performance.
The "Ambrozhya" team includes renowned artists from the local theater, such as Michel Guerrero, Geraldo Langbeck, Paulo Altallegre, Thais Vasconcelos, Luso Neto, Karol Medeiros, Israel Castro, Taiara Guedes, and Dione Maciel. The 75-minute show is a social and political critique of the early twenties, of the 20th century, about cultural practices. Written in 1981, the work tells the story of a family from 1918, in an abandoned town, Lazone, which, after a crisis, tries to survive financially by promoting artistic performances.
The plot unfolds after the painting by Lazone painter Leone Castomante is sold for 100 thousand pounds at an auction house in London. Knowing this information, the family holds an event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the painter's unexplained disappearance, which is the ghost of art hovering over Lazone. "Ambrozhya" is featured in Cardoso's collection, "The Urban Theater Book of the Women of Lazone."
"The work will always have a current content, because it talks about cultural doings. In 1980, when the country was still in the process of political opening, the situation was even worse, because there was no support for the artists, who lived in poverty," comments the author. "The story also involves a lot of suspense and supernatural terror. I am very honored and proud of the staging," says Sérgio Cardoso.
The plot
The story of the play takes place in the house of Ambrozhya Fagundes de Leão, headquarters of the Leone Castomante Musical Society, where everyone is bankrupt. The matriarch is upset, because 20 paintings by the artist, who painted macaws, parrots and birds, are stored in the basement of the house. The spirit of Leone Castomante hovers over the city in silence, for he is the Ghost of Art. Carlessonio, Ambrozhya's son, discovers the existence of Leone's only descendant, Miss Leona, who lives in Rio de Janeiro.
Immediately, the ambitious family arranges a way to lure her to Lazone and forges the commemorations of the deceased's vintenary, sending for her with the intent of killing her, thus intending to return to the social and political evidence, mobilizing the system around the false commemorations of the artist's death.
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