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IN ITS EIGHTH EDITION, MITsp – São Paulo International Theatre Festival resumes its onsite activities. It is a leaner programme, but no less reactive to the urges of present time. We have left a period of pandemic constraints to regain strength and revive the power of being together. We gathered a part of the contemporary world scene, with productions going through language experimentation and showing criticism of their own time. MITsp program brings together national and foreign works, including some original shows and a production by MITsp. MITbr - Platform Brazil continues as an important program for the internationalisation of Brazilian performing arts. Critical Regards complement the programme, inviting the audience to think about performing arts and contemporaneity with panels, articles and reviews; and the Educational Activities axis, with workshops, performances and activities bringing the debate to new pedagogies. We finally arrived in 2022, alive, vibrant and active.
MITsp PROGRAM In this edition, we have gathered a bunch of recent productions of important names on the world scene. Franco-Moroccan Mohamed El Khatib, part of MITsp 2019 with solo Finir en Beauté, is back to the Festival, this time with Stadium, a work discussing mass behaviour through football. The social debate also outlines Hammer and Sickle, an adaptation of French director Julien Gosselin for Don DeLillo's work, an allegory critical of the excesses of capitalism. The German group Rimini Protokoll deals with our strange and familiar relation with machines in Uncanny Valley. Argentinian Lisandro Rodríguez continues the research he began in the last Festival's edition and premieres a new work, produced by MITsp and with dramaturgy by Alexandre Dal Farra. Tragedy and Perspective I - The Pleasure of Not Agreeing is a debate about language and divergence. Also among the original works are History of the Eye - A Porn-noir Fairy Tale, in which Janaina Leite continues her theatre and pornography investigation, based on the work of Georges Bataille; Before Time Existed, a collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous artists seeking a dialogue between the many forms of existence; and the duo for piano and performance A Garden to Educate Beasts, a collaboration between Eduardo Okamoto, Isa Kopelman, Marcelo Onofri and Daniele Sampaio.
MITbr - PLATFORM BRAZIL Following the proposal to encompass the plurality of languages, themes and artists of the national scene, MITbr brings together, in its fourth year, works debating body and identity issues. 6
