RILKE PROJECT

Besides my work on film and with group theater, I have a solo performance research on the works of poet Rainer Maria Rilke. It started in 2010 with “Letters to a Young Poet”, based on the famous letters Rilke wrote to a young man who wanted to be a writer. This “first version” had puppets on stage, a reference to Tadeusz Kantor works. It was performed for 4 years, in venues in São Paulo and many cities across Brazil. 

In 2011 TV Cultura recorded a Television Version. You can watch it on Youtube and have an idea of how it was on stage.

In 2018, I decided to recreate the piece, making a much more simple version: an actor, a desk, and a bunch of envelopes. The new version is called simply RILKE, and the poet breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the audience. 

This second version was performed for two years. During the pandemic of Covid-19, in 2020, I performed a version on-line, streamed on Instagram and on Zoom.