Elisa Vaccaro

Porto - MA1 (2016)

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In the scenography class, Marta Freitas's theatrical text "Eis o homem" was chosen from the group of students and the teacher.
This text, initially inspired by Nietzsche "Ecce homo", has at the end not much in common with it. It is presented has the necessity of a man to express who he is, retracing and getting conscious of the behaviours that determine his position in the world, his relation with the others. The elaboration of this interior dialectic is expressed as a dialogue between this man and a sort of God, judging him, in a undefined place.
Briefly, the scenography of this piece can be described in some elements:
A cubic cage only materialised by the blue bright edges, that represent the mental prisonment in which the protagonist is located, that don't determinate physical limits, but they suggest them. A disquieting place, in which every bechmark is missing, every hook to an human imaginary.
The steps that goes out of the scene by the up side, allow to hierarchize according to necessities of the characters and the actors, and to accentuate the mystic side of the place.
Finally, the boles around the cube are justified by some specifities of the text, but they also refer to the others, to the unknown, what is exterior to ourselves.