Theater Lusoataque mixes Portuguese and German and prepares a new show

HOURmore than a decade and a half ago, Beatriz de Medeiros Silva, a reader of the Instituto Camões, decided to publish an article in the corridors of the University of Cologne, inviting interested parties for a pilot test.

“We didn’t do much publicity and soon over 20 students showed up for the first rehearsal. It is a very dynamic factor in Portuguese Studies and a social and artistic meeting. Since then, we have always had one production for each. semester. For several years we had two performances a year,” he said in statements to the Lusa agency.

Beatriz had already founded a theater troupe, also in Portuguese, in Freiburg. After “Os Quasilusos” followed “Lusoataque”, which was a real success. So much so that the group never stopped even during the covid-19 pandemic.

“We started with students, but the group grew with people from outside the university who were interested in the Portuguese language or theater. We continued to meet virtually and staged two online productions,” he described.

The works of the group that accompany the activities of the university may be based on an existing work or on the works of Portuguese or Brazilian authors.

The last work, “Terminal Saramago”, which appeared on the stage in June, was dedicated to the centenary of the Portuguese Nobel with the right to translate into German and offered a journey through his works.

Beatriz de Medeiros Silva, who has been reading Camões since 2005, acknowledges that it is “traditionally a didactic group of university students” but open to all interested parties who can communicate in Portuguese and German.

The new project, which is “still in discussion”, is expected to involve ten to fifteen people and will be based on the works of Portuguese and Brazilian authors, but details are being kept under wraps for now.

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