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ARMANDO NASCIMENTO ROSA
(1966 - )Nationality: Portuguese
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Armando Nascimento Rosa is the most successful living Portuguese playwright, in the current newborn century. His first staged play, Lianor in Nobattery land, was distinguished in 2000 with the prestigious Revelation Theatre Prize Ribeiro da Fonte, awarded by the Portuguese Institute for the Arts, and since then he has had some eleven different Theatre productions of his plays throughout Portugal, and recently also in Spain and UK as well. Author of eight books of plays and essays on Drama, Rosa (Ph.D in Dramatic Literature) is a teacher, in Lisbon, of Playwriting and theory of the Theatre at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (College of Dramatic Arts and Cinema, Lisbon).
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Mary Of Magdala, A Gnostic Fable Oedipus, An - the Untold StoryMary Of Magdala, A Gnostic Fable
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Wild Project, New York 12 Apr 2010
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With his new play, Armando Nascimento Rosa takes on millennia of literary tradition and a century of psychoanalytic theory by casting Oedipus, the legendary ill-fated theban king, in a bold, new light. Inspired by C. J. Jung, James Hillman and others, Rosa probes deeper into Oedipus's family history and finds the source of his fate not in incest, as Freud believed, but in the now-forgotten crime of Oedipus's father, Laius, which occurred long before Oedipus was born: Laius's abduction and attempted seduction of Pelops's beautiful young son, Chrysippus. Rosa sees the Oedipus complex as part of a broader matrix of complexes, one that includes the less-well-known "Laius complex" - the desire of fathers to kill their sons preemptively for fear of being upstaged by them. Rosa seeks to uncover the archetypal dimensions of the tragedy, drawing readers and viewers of the play to a less literal, more imaginal understanding of human passions and desires. the play unfolds in the manner of a psychotherapy session in which repressed memories are brought to consciousness and deep, dark secrets are revealed. Ghosts, spirit possession, shamanism, and psychology come together in a dizzying array that subjects readers and viewers of the play alike to a "gnostic" experience like no other before it. Rosa weaves together a number of contemporary issues, including homosexuality, homophobia, transgendering, and same-sex unions.
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the performance of An Oedipus takes About An hour And A half. the play is published in English (translated from the Portuguese by Luis Toledo, revised by Michael Mendis in collaboration with the Author) with A foreword by Susan Rowland And critical essays on the play by Christine Downing And Marvin Carlson.
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Lisbon (Portugal) 2003
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Teatro da Comuna, Lisbon
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Spring Journal Books (New Orleans), 2006 -
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Ghostly mythoDrama in one act
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