Carmen Dolores will be in the audience to see herself in "Carmen"

It is that the future would provide them with many other encounters. In 1992, they all entered Ibsen's play Espectros at the Teatro Experimental de Cascais, staged by Carlos Avilez. It was then that this friendship began to be born to three (and, we can say, this new show). Both Diogo and Natalia would return to work with Carmen Dolores, at the theater and on television, and there was even a moment in 1998 when Diogo Infante directed the veteran actress then: "I've been invited by Mega Ferreira to put on a Tennessee Williams show and I soon remembered Cristal Garden I was invited to Carmen and she answered me: Only if you do Tom.And it was not so bad. is like that In the studio room of Nacional.We contracted and me, who was "

And we Let's get to 2017, when I was little, I was running Carmen. Carmen Dolores published the third of her memoirs, entitled Voices Within Me . As soon as he read it, Diogo Infante, who is also the artistic director of Trinidad, quickly realized that he could make a show of it. "I was taken by surprise, I think it was very kind of him, I could not say no," Carmen explains. It's also she who has remembered Natalia Luiza for doing "if."

Natália, who has devoted herself in recent years more to staging than to performance, has accepted the challenge. Back to the scene. It is also the first time that the roles are reversed and that Diogo Infante directs Natalia Luiza. "It's she who has shown me the most times, who knows me best, who else has been able to get me out of my comfort zone," says Diogo, while next to him, Natalia shakes her head as if to say that she does not deserve so much praise.

Carmen a tribute

Today, July 11, 2018, is important, the day Carmen, Diogo and Natalia show to the world the result of these years of encounters and d & # … 39 friendships and mutual admiration. At the Trindade Theater in Lisbon, the same theater where she debuted
Amor de Perdição the first film of the actress in 1943, and where two years later she would also debut on stage – premieres Carmen a co-production between the Trindade Theater, the Southern Theater and the Almada Festival. The Minister of Culture, Luís Filipe Castro Mendes, will attend the performance, as well as many other friends and colleagues, after which there will be a tribute to the actress – the main hall is named Carmen Dolores and will open an exhibition in various spaces of the theater

In the audience will be Carmen Dolores. The actress followed closely the process of creating the show and talked a lot with Diogo and Natalia, but did not want to see repetition. "I can not imagine what it will be like to see someone doing this to me," he says. "It's a strange thing, I do not know how I'm going to feel it."

The director explains: "Carmen played a very important role, reads, gives suggestions, always makes life easier …: think that Natalia could not know me, as if she were saying: Let me go, forget me , and it was valuable because, of course, we could not do a composition of Carmen, it's not what we want it's to find here a alter ego of Carmen, a summation of all the Carmens, a character from but who captures the essence of it.We make a caricature. "

For Natalia Luiza, it was always clear that it was n & rsquo; It was neither possible nor desirable to make a "mimicry": "One thing is the ability that one may have to apprehend a way to be, a personality that does or that is not. she walks in a certain direction, which she describes herself.isa is mimicry, which would be far from what he is and he would be arrogant and unintellig from us to do so. What is meant is to honor, respect a text, a memory, a life course that is dear to us as well as current theater makers. "