Que Seria — Lara Mesquita
In a collective imaginary in which black people are privileged, Othello is a white man who aspires a place of privilege. Power and ownership of the law, physical and intellectual superiority, prejudices and fear, prevent the privileged from facilitating this approximation. With a contemporary and reinvented narrative, the characters of Shakespeare’s classic remain but what they represent is inverted. If it were the other way around, what would it be?
Credits
Script, staging and project direction: Lara Mesquita
Staging assistance: Camila Cerqueira
Performers: Ana Amaral, Cirila Bossuet, Cláudio de Castro, Daniel Moutinho, Júlio Mesquita, Actriz a definir
Art direction: da Bernarda
Light design and operation: Diana dos Santos
Sound and video operation: a definir
Original music: a definir
Executive Production: Thalita Araújo
Production: PARROTRECORD – Associação Cultural
Co-production: Bolsa de Criação O Espaço do Tempo, com o apoio do BPI e da Fundação “la Caixa”
Support: Direcção Geral das Artes
About Lara Mesquita
Lara Vanessa Cossa Mesquita, Lisbon 1986.
She inherits Mozambique from her mother and the island of Pico from her father. She grew up in Barreiro, where she studied science in secondary school. She attended undergraduate courses in Psychology (ISPA – 2005) and Law (Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa – 2007/09).
In 2009 she moved to Lisbon. The following year she finishes the training course for actors at In Impetus. She has a degree in Theater – Branch Actors, by Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (2016). She has been working as an actress since 2012. She highlights her collaboration in cinema with Tiago Guedes, in theater with Luís Miguel Cintra, Griot and Rodrigo Francisco.
In 2021, she debuted her first authorial creation Sempre que Acordo. The homonymous text that she wrote for this show earned her the New Dramaturgy Award for Female Authorship.
She is the artistic director of PARROTRECORD, a cultural association founded in April 2022.
