Romeu e Julieta - John Romo (spot)

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"Romeu e Julieta" [Romeo and Juliet]
Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisboa)
14 Fev - 1 Mar 2020

Text: William Shakespeare
Version: John Romão, based on the translation of Filomena Vasconcelos
Direction and set: John Romão
Dramaturgy: John Romão and Marta Bernardes
With: João Arrais, João Cachola, João Jesus, Mariana Monteiro, Mariana Tengner Barros, Matamba Joaquim, Rodrigo Tomás, Rui Paixão
Light design: Rui Monteiro
Sound design: Daniel Romero
Costumes: Carolina Queirós Machado
Flags: Horácio Frutuoso
Special effects: Fernando Ribeiro
Set design support: F. Ribeiro, Pedro Jardim
Production direction: Patrícia Soares / Produção d'Fusão
Production: Colectivo 84
Coproduction: National Theatre D. Maria II
Support: Ministry of Culture / DG Artes
Artístic residency: O Espaço do Tempo

Romeo and Juliet is a young couple who ceaselessly advance with their eyes set on the future and run over the present of their bodies that only come together in death, that is, in the absence (or at the height) of speed.
To John Romão, to work on "Romeu and Juliet" is a process based on revelation, on the contagion between images and time. It relies conceptually on present elements in a dual way in Shakespeare's text - antitheses that comprise Eros and Thanatos and the myth of the meeting of the two characters in death - to reconstruct the body, its pain and its human functions.
In "Romeo and Juliet" there is a hatred for the Earth, its limits and boundaries in a time marked by a dizzying speed that makes the bodies run to death.

"The place where they are - where we see them - does not exist.
John Romão (JR): It is the place of impossibility - which is precisely the place of love, that is, of transgression in Romeo and Juliet. A place that needs to be invented, that still has no name. We are absolute enhancers of transgression. Transgression is something that we carry within our body. We can practice it, but we are educated to control and hide it, and at the same time it would be a huge danger if we all decided to transgress. It is a natural state of the human being - transgression is a thought, it is a shadow, it is a ghost. This is the place of Romeo and Juliet, the place of all possibilities and, in parallel, the place of all inevitability. And that was the difficulty and it is also the key to this piece - the questioning of the place. (...) the place of this show is not describable: it is not standing, it is not sitting, it is not in a strange position... it is a place that does not exist. Now, contextualizing in the history of the theater, we bring to the theater a work with a place that does not exist. And that impossibility, that non-place, is the convention of this show. (...) And if he is not there physically, where is he? The interior place, of the imagination... I was very interested in thinking what this place is. And bringing to contemporary times, this is exactly the relationship with technology and virtuality. (...) Living in a place that is a non-place is the aim of Romeo and Juliet: to walk towards the unknown, a place without labels, in which they are neither Capulet nor Montecchio, in which they are neither vertical nor horizontal, neither are they seated nor lying down.

Paul Virilio* speaks of the slow time of art, that space-time that introduces distance and duration in the accelerated madness in which we live. And, in this sense too, this device embodies that time of the arts of the body.
JR: It's more of an appearance, but it introduces a slowdown, yes, we are faced with rhythms that we don't necessarily know. And the proposed experience, the questioning is also about the duration, not only about the time - because this proposal is permanent, it lasts most of the time - but also about the reading time that things can have: how does the visible changes, how does it metamorphoses into different things. We are not used to it. (...) It is different here: the question is how the same thing can be transformed as time passes. There is a constant re-signification of the body and the words. In which words and objects give meaning to the body - to that device - like a bumpy motorcycle, for example. The accident is a forced suspension of speed and makes you aware of your body. It is the awareness that the body exists even though we are constantly accelerating in our daily lives. Accidents exist to remind us that we have a body. Like sex, carnality - they exist to keep us from forgetting what we are made of."
- John Romão, excerpt of the interview

PT Entrevista a John Romão:
files.cargocollective.com/525860/FS_RomeuEJulieta.pdf

EN Interview to John Romão:
files.cargocollective.com/525860/Programme-interview---Transgression-is-something-we-carry-within-our-body.pdf

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