SYNOPSIS

The Urban Intervention CORTAZIAN GAMES - Instructions for Disappearing takes place in spaces where there are a lot of people circulating, such as sidewalks, squares, fairs, bus terminals, etc. The players receive sound stimuli through headphones and react by proposing unusual compositions over the space. A body that dances among the fruit stands, a group of people dressed in green overalls with their eyes closed on the sidewalk, a song shared with the passersby, green balloons that appear and disappear, an unexpected question: everything is an invitation for the small suspensions of the everyday life. The attention to a detail that can reveal the fantastic and the poetic that inhabit the everyday path.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Direction: Flávio Rabelo 

Creation: Alice Possani, Bruno Cardoso, Erika Cunha, Flavio Rabelo and Melissa Lopes

Players: Alice Possani, Erika Cunha and guests

Made by: Matula Teatro Group

Age Rating: Livre

Length: 90 minutos.

About Cortázar

Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) was an Argentinian writer, poetic prose and history master, and creator of relevant novels that pioneered a new way of writing literature in the hispanic world, breaking the classic structures through narratives that do not follow a specific timeline. 

One if his most iconic books is Rayuela (Hopscotch), 1963, which allows plenty of different readings as decisions must be made by the reader from the own author’s orientation. A game-book, which turns the reader into co-author of the work as it allows uncountable possible readings. 

Cortázar’s work is frequently defined as magic realism, transiting between what is reality and what is fantasy, and at the same time flirting with surrealism. He is considered to be one of the most innovative and original.