Cardiff
Video adaptation of Bound East for Cardiff
Companhia Triptal de Teatro
São Paulo, Brazil, 2008

Director: André Garolli     Translation: Fernando Paz
Vocal Director: Lúcia Gayotto     Musical Director: André Lima
Lighting Designer: Nelson Ferreira          Producer: Carla Estefan
     Video: Patricia Alegre
 

Cast: André Lima, Kalil Jabbour, Reinaldo Taunay. Bruno Feldman, Daniel Ribeiro, Pepe Ramirez, Wagner Menegare, Alexsandro Santos, Roberto Leite, Guilherme Lopes, Adilson dos Santos, Bruno Barchesi, Cleber Galo, Conrado Sardinha, Fernando Alcantara, Flavio Victorio, Gabriel Ebling, Gabriel Stippe, Guto Almeida, Hugo Angeli, Keferson Oliveira, Marcos Dipietro, Marcos Machado, Mariva, Mauricio Mascarenhas, Michel Weisman Kleinas, Paulo Silva, Rodrigo Caetano, Veni Toledo, Vitor Davied, Vitor Moreno, Will Sgursckow, Ygor Fiori

Companhia Triptal was formed in 1990 with the mission of creating innovative productions for children.  Their first project, Maria Clara Clareou, staged seven texts of Maria Clara Machado, a popular writer of plays for young people.  For the past decade, the company has staged more adult productions with a special interest in the O'Neill's early sea plays—Zona de Guerra (In the Zone), Longa Viagem de Volta pra Casa (The Long Voyage Home) and Cardiff (Bound East for Cardiff), collectively titled Homens ao Mar (Sea Plays).  Crafted in a variety of nontraditional spaces, Triptal's rendering of these works has brought the company considerable success in their home country:  Zona de Guerra was awarded the prestigious APCA (Criteria Association) Award for "Best Spectacle" and was nominated for the Premio Shell de Teatro (Shell Theatre Award) for its striking gritty production.  Cardiff received Shell nominations for its outstanding direction and musical direction, and received the Premio Shell for Best Scenic Design. To director André Garolli, O'Neill's sea plays deal with characters who feed themselves with dreams that they couldn't achieve, because the chosen ways lead them to failure.  Garolli parallels O'Neill's time period with that of the contemporary world by abstracting the original texts and creating a highly physical and environmental staging.  Garolli intends the resulting tension between text and staging to bring O'Neill's common humanity to the forefront, while drawing the audiences into the world of each play in unexpected and unconventional ways. This imaginative approach to O'Neill's work is meant, says Garolli, to open cracks to disclose worlds that the text only suggests....  The friction between these texts from a century ago and the contemporary theater we are producing is the spark that keep the fire in the furnace and the ship on course. In the audiovisual versions of the plays, says Garolli, we did not want simply to film the acting performance. Specially in Cardiff, we tried to "walk" the camera into the stage, integrated into the scenery and take part of the action, a language dialogue between theater and video. There was no change in the actors interpretation or its original play format.