Jerusalem liberated

peça de M. Francis baseada na epopéia de Torquato Tasso tradução de Artur de Azevedo adaptação de Ruth Salles NOTA A epopéia “Jerusalém Libertada”, de Torquato Tasso (século XVI), conta episódios da primeira cruzada romanceados pelo autor, como ele mesmo confessa no início, pedindo perdão à musa “se, por entre os relatos verdadeiros, / ponho nas…

Don Gil of the Green Pants

peça de Tirso de Molina tradução e adaptação de Ruth Salles NOTA Tirso de Molina é o pseudônimo do frade espanhol Gabriel Tellez, nascido em Madri em 1571. Criador da famosa figura de Dom Juan, é considerado, depois de Lope de Vega, o mais fecundo e variado dramaturgo da Espanha. Em meio às obrigações de sua…

From Olinda to Olanda

peça de Ruth Salles peça baseada em fontes históricas, documentos, e no romance “O Príncipe de Nassau”, de Paulo Setúbal DE OLINDA A OLANDA Esta peça foi feita especialmente a pedido do professor Tarcísio Viola, que queria, para seus alunos de 14 anos, uma peça sobre tema brasileiro. Escolhemos então alguns momentos de um episódio…

Christmas tale

conto de Charles Dickens Adaptação para teatro de Ruth Salles NOTAS Esta peça baseia-se no conto homônimo do célebre escritor inglês Charles Dickens (1812-1870), que influenciou profundamente sua época lutando pelo humanitarismo e contra a indiferença e a crueldade do comercialismo e do sistema industrial, chamando a atenção para o indivíduo em si. Charles Dickens…

Bastien and Bastienne

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Portuguese version of the text: Ruth Salles NOTES Concerning the comic opera BASTIEN AND BASTIENNE by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart, great Austrian composer, was born in Salzburg, on January 27, 1756, and died in Vienna, on December 5, 1791, before turning 36…

Life is Dream

play by Calderón de La Barca translated and adapted by Ruth Salles NOTES Don Pedro Calderón de La Barca, a unique figure in Spanish theater, was born in 1600 in Madrid and died in 1681. His plays were so popular that his death represented a real calamity public. Faithful mirror of the customs of his time, Calderón was the…

The storm

play by William Shakespeare translation and adaptation: Ruth Salles NOTES The biography of William Shakespeare, considered one of the greatest playwrights of all time, is based on few documents. According to these, he was born in England, at Stratford-on-Avon, on the 23rd of April, 1564, and died in the same place and on the same day in 1616,…

the girl Joana

play by Helmuth von Kügelgen Translated by Maria Barbara Trommer Adaptation by Ruth Salles PRESENTATION WORDS “In this work, we intend to show pictures of the life of Joan of Arc, the young woman who, at the age of 17, practically kept the power in her hands absolute authority over a nation's armed forces. With that, France…

The Tamed Shrew

play by William Shakespeare Adaptation by Ruth Salles, from the original in English and the translation into Portuguese by Carlos Alberto Nunes NOTE This play by Shakespeare is said to have been written in 1594. It is the story of two beautiful sisters, the eldest with a terrible genius, the most gentle and sweet girl. It is…

The Comedy of Errors

play by William Shakespeare Adaptation by Ruth Salles from the English original NOTE The Comedy of Errors was first published in 1623. Already cited, however, in 1598, it is said to have been written around 1591. In this his only farce, Shakespeare seems to have based on Plautus, but there are still doubts about it.…