LOVE TRILOGY”, composed by the musicals A Gaiola, Tales Partidos de Amor and Let's Buy a Poet, performs in season online

Directed by Duda Maia, the shows address themes present in the daily lives of children, of fathers and mothers.

In this situation of isolation, we are distancing ourselves from friends and relatives. The place where we live has become the workplace, school and leisure space.

Many times, this intense interaction becomes repetitive and tiring. Thinking about bringing joy and poetry, to Word Z Cultural Productions will provide a delightful encounter with art.

During the month of March, adults and children may, from their homes, watch three award-winning musicals. These are spectacles that provoke thought, stimulate creativity and stimulate dialogue between people of all ages.

The season, made possible with resources from the Aldir Blanc Law, will be broadcast free through the channel youtube.com/palavraz. All sessions start at 4pm. Get the family together to watch and revel in these three love stories.

The shows:

"The cage" tells a story of love and separation between a girl and a bird. On stage, the characters start a story of love and friendship when the bird falls, injured, on the porch of the girl's house.

In the plot, the girl is dedicated to taking care of the little animal and, as they live together, cling to each other until they fall in love. He is cured and at the time of the farewell they are faced with the desire to be together. One day, the girl catches the bird in the cage enchanted by the beauty of the day outside and a crisis sets in between the two. Come and see how the story ends. A story of Love and Freedom.

To Adriana Falcão, author of the book of the same name and who inspired the play, earned a nomination for the Jabuti Award.

"The cage" was the highlight of the 3rd Edition of the CBTIJ Award 2016, winning seven statuettes: Best Show; Best Adapted Text – Adriana Falcão and Eduardo Rios; Best Direction – Duda Maia; Best actress – Carol Future; Best scenario – João Modé; Best Lighting – Renato Machado; and Original Music – Rich Viana, Eduardo Rios and Adriana Falcão. And at the 11th Zilka Sallaberry Children’s Theater Award, won in the categories: Best Show; Best Direction – Duda Maia; and Best Scenario – João Modé. Gaiola was also the winning show of the Botequim Cultural Award 2016, taking all the prizes, being they: Best Show; Best Direction – Duda Maia; Best actress – Carol Future; Best Actor – Pablo Áscoli; and Best Text – Eduardo Rios and Adriana Falcão.

“Broken Tales of Love” presents the story of four passionate and jealous little people, who argue about possessive and loving relationships. The staging takes place through humorous dialogues, a sophisticated language of movement and a musical direction that aligned the entire staging, the songs in some numbers are played by the group of performers themselves - Diego de Abreu, Isadora Medella, Juliana Linhares and Tiago Herz. The work features original songs and tales by Eduardo Rios, inspired by the work of Machado de Assis.

“I came up against‘ Tales of Love and Jealousy ’, I liked the title and only afterwards I saw that it was Machado de Assis. I was excited to create a children's play about jealousy, from the writer's universe ”, remember Duda Maia. “We are all jealous and the child is also very jealous.

To ela, believe: “Theater for children doesn’t have to be just a cool story, need to be necessary, bring reflections to those who watch. It is necessary not to underestimate neither the intelligence of the children nor the ability of them to engage in important dialogues with adults ”.

“Broken Tales of Love” was the winning show of the 11th Zilka Sallaberry Award for Children's Theater, in the following categories: Best Direction – Duda Maia; and Best Costume Design – Kika Lopes.

"Let's Buy a Poet", inspired by the book of the same name by Afonso Cruz, narrates the arrival of a poet at the home of an ordinary family. In this home, live a father, who only thinks about making money; a mother, that organizes housework every day; a smart and curious girl who likes to understand the meaning of things; and a boy in love, who loves to do math.

The Poet teaches the little ones to observe butterflies, write their own poems and give hugs. The montage creates a fun reflection on our capacity for invention, the meaning of productivity and the importance of friendship. The show mixes music, poetry and dance in a setting that brings elements of a park, making the playful and dynamic staging.

The play, Directed by Duda Maia, has adaptation by Clarice Lissovsky, musical direction by Ricco Viana and cast formed by Letícia Medella, Luan Vieira and Sergio Kauffmann.

"Let's Buy a Poet" won the prize for Best Children and Youth Show of 2019, by APCA (Paulista Association of Art Critics), and CBTIJ Award won in the Adapted Text categories, for Clarice Lissovsky; Direction, for Duda Maia; Actors and Actresses Collective, for Letícia Medella, Luan Vieira and Sergio Kauffmann; Scenario, for André Cortez; Lighting, for Renato Machado; in addition to nominations for Best Original Music, for Ricco Viana, Clarice Lissovsky and Juliana Linhares; and Production Direction, for Bruno Mariozz.