Inesa Markava is one of the actors in “Hiroshima Memorial” Photo by Paulo Abrantes
The victims of Hiroshima, the Japanese city on which the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, are remembered in a performative recital with production by Cooperativa Bonifrates, from Coimbra, and the group Te-Ato.
The tragedy caused by the fall of the first atomic bomb – and also the second, three days later, over Nagasaki – and which resulted in more than two hundred thousand deaths, is evoked in “Memorial de Hiroshima”. In addition to the people who died at the time and in the following years, “the whole of humanity was also a victim”, which “imposes on us the right and the duty not to forget”, stresses Bonifrates, in the synopsis.
On stage there is poetry, music, dance and video that go through the sections “Olhar Hiroxima”, “Listen to Hiroxima”, “Feel Hiroxima” and “Know Hiroxima beyond Hiroxima”. Because “it is necessary to remember the look, listen to the voices and their silences, feel the pain and its marks and know that Hiroshima did not end in Hiroshima”, since “in each victim of war there is a Hiroshima that is reborn”.
Conceived and coordinated by Ana Paula Santos and João Maria André, the show features choreography and dance by Inesa Markava, actors directed by João Lázaro and poems read by José Luís Coelho, Leonor Lourenço, Miguel Câmara, Miguel Sarreira and Pedro Antunes. The scenography is by Atelier do Corvo, the musical coordination is by Amílcar Cardoso, with songs by Ofélia Libório, and the lighting design is signed by Nuno Patinho. Região de Leiria
