Mark Brown on the best that Portugal's premier arts festival has to offer 👇
’s summer festival season is already underway. Portugal’s premier performing arts programme, Festival de Almada , is particularly noteworthy.
The high international standing of the Almada festival is evinced by the kind of artists who continue to present work here. I have always been fascinated by Pinter’s work: a fascination that led, with considerable good fortune, to me conducting an interview with the great writer at his London home in 2001, some seven years before his death. Few of his dramas contain more intriguing possibilities, more bleakly disquieting comedy or more terrifying political implications than The Birthday Party.
In every aspect of the piece, the director, somehow, increases the emotional volume. This is true from the exaggeratedly comic walk of Fernando Maraghini’s boarding house owner Petey to the disquieting tryst between Goldberg and the much younger Lulu .
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