Mindelact is a Cabo Verdean theater association based in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cabo Verde. Each year, it organizes the Mindelact Theater Festival (Mindelact - Festival Internacional de Teatro do Mindelo).
The association was founded in 1996 by Elisângelo Ramos and Portuguese-Cabo Verdean actor and director João Branco, producing the country's most important theater festival. Several plays were performed with the Grupo de Teatro do Centro Cultural Português do Mindelo (GTCCPM), which was founded a few years earlier in 1993.
Heads João Branco, 1996-2013
Mindelact - Mindelo International Theatre Festival Its first edition was held in 1995. The festival today is considered one of the most important events in African theater. As of 2023, 29 editions of the festival have been carried out.Mindelact website
One of the plays performed in one of the early editions was by Sergio Frusoni.
I (1st) - 1995 - First edition XIX (19th) - 2013: 50th performance of The Tempest (Tempestade, ALUPEK: Tempestadi) XX (20th) - 2014: Appearances: Mel GambôaOceanpress article , 2014
Plays performed by the GTCCPM Several plays were performed by the GTCCPM prior to the creation of Mindelact. Plays varied from Shakespearean classics and Victorian tales, to contemporary stories penned by significant Cabo Verdean writers. One of the actors and performers of the festival included João Branco.
1991: Quem me dera ser Onda, novel by Mário Rui - GTCCPM 1993: Fome de 47 - unknown author 1993: A Estátua e Etc. - collective text 1994: Our Fisherman (Nos Pescadores) - collective text 1994: Chico - collective text 1995: Gin Tonic Surrealist - partly by Mário Henrique Leiria 1996: Adaptation of a book by Oscar Wilde 1997 and 2007: A play, an adaptation of a book by Garcia Lorca 1998: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 1999: Os dois irmãos, adaptation of a novel by Germano Almeida 1999: Figa Canhota, collective text 1999: Catchupa, collective text 2000: Agravos de um Artista, adaptation of a short story by Germano Almeida 2001: Count of Abranhos, adaption of a book by Eça de Queirós 2002: Salon by Mário Lúcio Sousa 2003: King Lear by William Shakespeare, co-produced with Atelier Teatrakácia 2004: Tertúlia, based on the poems 2005: High Seas - a poem by Mrozek and Eugénio Tavares 2006: "Women of Lajinha" ("Mulheres na Lajinha"), a part of the novel O mar na Lajinha by Germano Almeida 2007: A Caderneta, by Baltasar Lopes da Silva 2009: The Fire (No Inferno), based on a book by Arménio Vieira 2009: O Jardim do Dr. Gordner Brickers, by Caplan Neves 2012: Stand Up Comedy Pará Moss, collective texts with Trupe Pará (Pará Troop) 2012: Theory of Silence (Teorema do Silêncio) by Caplan Neves 2012: As Mindelenses (The Mindelians, sometimes as Gramportians) - collective texts with Trupe Pará (Pará Troop) 2013: Sete Pequenas Peça, Para Sete Grandes Crises - collective text with Trupe Pará (Pará Troop) 2013: The Tempest by William Shakespeare 2016 - Strangers by José Luis Peixoto, co-produced with Teatro Rivoli in Porto, Portugal
References
External links
GTCCPM's website