So our performance was canceled on saturday, so i decided to help some colleagues from our clown's class who were organizing an event on the beach. They were organizing a ping pong, no, sorry, table tennis tournament and promoting the lisbon table tennis association. There was also a gym promoting activities and we were helping by calling out people to participate, the four of us with our red nose.
Sure, I could have stayed home and slept but that would have been quite out of character, wouldn't it?
But I took a very long nap in the afternoon. Plus I got to go to the beach for the first time this year.
here we are:

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it's july 14th, bastille day, and I thought this song was appropiate. France is indeed the country of my childhood. I was looking for the "carte de séjour "version, because they are foreningers like me, but the video does not seem to exist.

no perfomance in the jail of alcoentre this saturday after all. it has been postponed sine die.

Our playback theatre group was supposed to perform in Alcoentre pric«son this saturday, but there´s been a mutiny there.

Somebody hacked my father's ATM card data. He only noticed because he tried
to make a withdrawal and it was refused saying he had no cash available.
Luckily, he still had money, "he" just had exceeded the quota for the week.
He had not made any withdrawals himself, and when he went to the bank to
check card movements and cancel it they discovered the withdrawals had been
made in a foreign currency.
Saturday when he went to the police to file a complaint he realized he was
the 4th person complaining about the same that day. Same complaint from the
guy after him as well. He said he felt better then, at least he hadn't made
any stupid mistake.

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rating: 4 of 5 stars
Anti white??? How can anyone say that?!

But then it is easy to relate when you've heard all your childhood that
you're dark because you wash your face with the dirt from your feet.

I was curious about it since I heard Toni Morison in a interview where
she explained she had this friend ho was truly beautiful but thought she
wasn't because she didn't have blue eyes, and this is what inspired the
book. it reminded me of stories my mother told me about life in africa when
she was young. The same wish to "whiten" yourself, the same prejudices...

And very moving.


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my reviews.

We started talking about travelling and how it affects you and C. comes up
to tell his story about his time in Africa. And as he starts telling his
story, my annoyance starts to grow. I couldn't help but feeling he was
terribly patronising and at one point I was really fuming inside.
Good thing I was not chosen as the teller's actor for that one.
But it was a challenge to do this story, having to set my annoyance aside
because one has to be faithful to the story, and it's the teller's moment,
not ours.

Yesterday's performance went quite well.
It seemed like a difficult theme at first but it turned out to be quite
easy to get stories out of people. Started off about how sometimes we are
more turned to ourselves and sometimes more to the others and how that
affects us, and then it moved to formative trips, what
changes are brought by moving to a different country, dealing with a
different culture.
It helped that C. and R., who already knew playback, were in the audience,
C. was the first to go to the "stage" to tell her story of experiencing a
different country, which brought up the other stories.
And, yay me, I was finally chosen to be the teller's actor in a performance!

Getting nervous about the performance tonight.
The more experienced I am, the earlier it starts.
I know that it playback, if the audience gets to tell their story and are
happy they have been heard, then the perforamnce has been good enough and we
don't have to whip ourselves if the art wasn't great.
But still...
It's not like normal theatre where you have all theses things that have been
extensively choreagraphed. You never know weher you will be asked to be the
teller's actor or a fire truck. And sometimes you have absolutely no idea
what to do but you just have to do something.
oh well, some people jump off bridges, I do plaback theatre.

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Assisted Z for the playback workshop today. Almost didn't happen, but I told Z. to wait until the end of friday.
I mean, this is Portugal, people often only register on the day itself. We ended up having six people, mostly guys, whoch is a nice change for me.
An awkward moment for me at the beginning, because one of them was my first drama teacher, and all of the sudden the positions were practically inverted.
Very different poeple, from different backgrounds, which makes it very interesting. Wonder if any of them will want to join the group...

Saw this one yesterday. Very nice surprise.

*Iniciação ao Teatro Playback*





Um workshop orientado por José Marques, fundador e orientador do Teatro
Imediato, o primeiro grupo de Teatro Playback em Portugal



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had a class with this lady today. brilliant. not only is she a great dancer but she's also a very good teacher.
I wasn't planning on doing it, but the owner of the gym asked our drumming teacher, another studente and me to play during the classes so I decided to do the intermediate level class.
After all, it isn't everyday that one has the oportunity to take a class from a former belydance superstar

saw this one yesterday. didn't really know what it was, wasn't expecting anything special.
But oh what a pleasant surpirse! I think it will rank as one of my favorite vampire movies ever.

I received a tribute yesterday.
From the dance group I used to be in, Balé Brasil de Portugal.
Now they are only rehearsing in Cacilhas, because the sity has offered a free rehearsal space. They performed sunday afternoon in front of Pedro's house, to make a tribute to a council lady who had helped them a lot. And they went on giving tributes to former members.
Felt good to see the old crowd again. I had tears in my eyes when I received my tribute, and watching them dance I could feel the itch of getting on stage coming back.
But rehearsals are on the same day as playback, and I was getting exercise induced asthma when I left the group. Even if I have since recovered my resistance, I think that was a sign it wwas time to leave.
The group is big now, full of kids and teenagers from the neighborhood, and it gives much more life to some choreographies that include a lot of figures ( lines, half moons, Vs...)
Glad to see P. might finally fulfill his dream.

Saw this show on friday. Gardi Hutter is brilliant. My jaws hurt from so much laughing.

Casting last week seems to have gone well. When I came out of the room my friend was there waiting for his turn and he wnet in just after me. He says the girls had liked me very much.
I know they have started contacting people this week, and even if I am not chosen they will tell me something. I ended up trying for 2 characters, but I would love to do the cold hard one. I actually managed to make a really mean look. But maybe I'm too "exotic" for the part.

going to my first casting ever. it's just for a movie from artschool students, but still i'm nervous. Silly, I know.

Lost myself at the bookfair today. i was fighting really hard to avoid going there but I learned there were Penguin Books at Pó dos Livros' stand and there was also a bookcrossing stall. Plus the pollen counts were probably low and my friend had cancelled our dinner and I didn't feel like going home straight from work.
The new stalls are nice, especially the walk-in ones, but it took me a while before I finally found where their numbers were written. Luckily as I was trying to find Pó dos livros on the map I heard someone call my name. I. was there to discuss things about the book she had published and A. showed up a bit later. I hadn't seen her since december. That's one of the things I most enjoy in Lisbon: those chance meetings.
So here is what I bought: Stieg Larssen's Millenium 1 and 2 ( there were at 9,6 euros in english at the fnac stall plus the reduction from my fnac card) and i really really couldn't resist Robertson Davies' A mixture of Frailties. Pity they didn't have World of Wonders so my Deptford  trilogy would be complete.
Small anecdote: as I was paying a lady comes and asks for all the books of the day. Apparently every year she goes to that stall everyday and asks for the books of the day.