Mindelact is a Cabo Verdean theater association based in

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on the island of São Vicente, Cabo Verde. Each year, it organizes the Mindelact Theater Festival (''Mindelact - Festival Internacional de Teatro do Mindelo'') The association was founded in 1996 by

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and Portuguese-Cabo Verdean actor and director

João Branco João Guedes Branco (born 1 July 1968) is a French-born Portuguese theatrical actor and reviewer, professor, and programmer. He had a theatrical career for over 30 years and appeared in more than 50 plays, most of them in Mindelo, Cape Verde. B ...

, and today produces the country's most important theater festival. Several plays were performed with the Grupo de Teatro do Centro Cultural Português do Mindelo, founded in 1993, two years before the foundation of Mindelact. In 2001, the association celebrated its 5th anniversary of its foundation and in 2006, its 10th anniversary.

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, 1996-2013

Mindelact - Mindelo International Theatre Festival

Its first edition was held in 1995. The festival today is considered one of the most important events in African theater. As of 2023, 29 editions of the festival have been carried out. One of the plays performed in one of the early editions were ' by Sergio Frusoni. *I (1st) - 1995 - First edition *XIX (19th) - 2013: 50th performance of ''

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'' (''Tempestade'', ALUPEK: ''Tempestadi'') *XX (20th) - 2014: Appearances: Mel GambôaOceanpress article
, 2014

Plays performed by the GTCCPM

Several plays were performed before Mindelact was founded in 1996. Some of the plays are world renowned and some of them are Capeverdean. One of the actors and performers included

. *1991: ''Quem me dera ser Onda'', novel by Mário Rui - GTCCP *1993: ''Fome de 47'' - unknown author *1993: ''A Estátua e Etc.'' - collective text *1994: ''Our Fisherman'' (''Nos Pescadores'') - collective text *1994: ''Chico'' - collective text *1995: ''Gin Tonic Surrealist'' - partly by Mário Henrique Leiria *1996: Adaptation of a book by

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*1997 and 2007: A play, an adaptation of a book by Garcia Lorca *1998: ''

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'' by

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*1999: ''Os dois irmãos'', adaptation of a novel by

Germano Almeida Germano Almeida (; born 31 July 1945) is a Cape Verdean author and lawyer. Biography Born on the Cape Verdean island Boa Vista, Almeida studied law at the University of Lisbon and currently practices in Mindelo. His novels have been translat ...

*1999: ''Figa Canhota'', collective text *1999: ''Catchupa'', collective text *2000: ''Agravos de um Artista'', adaptation of a short story by Germano Almeida *2001: ''Count of Abranhos'', adaption of a book by Eça de Queirós *2002: ''Salon'' by Mário Lúcio Sousa *2003: ''

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, co-produced with Atelier Teatrakácia *2004: ''Tertúlia'', based on the poems *2005: ''High Seas'' - a poem by Mrozek and

Eugénio Tavares Eugénio de Paula Tavares (born 18 October 1867 in the island of Brava; died 1 June 1930 in Vila Nova Sintra) was a Cape Verdean poet. He is known through his famous poems ('' mornas''), mostly written in the Creole of Brava. Biography Eugén ...

*2006: "Women of Lajinha" ("Mulheres na Lajinha"), a part of the novel ''

O mar na Lajinha ''O mar na Lajinha'', also as ''No mar da Lajinha'' (Capeverdean Creole, ALUPEK: ''U mar na Lajinha'', ''Nu mar da Lajinha'') is a Capeverdean novel published in 2004 by Germano Almeida. The story is about a group of people meeting regularly for ...

'' by

*2007: ''A Caderneta'', by

Baltasar Lopes da Silva Baltasar Lopes da Silva (23 April 1907 – 8 May 1989) was a writer, poet and linguist from Cape Verde, who wrote in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. With Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, he was the founder of '' Claridade''. In 1947 ...

*2009: ''The Fire'' (''No Inferno''), based on a book by Arménio Vieira *2009: ''O Jardim do Dr. Gordner Brickers'', by Caplan Neves *2012: ''Stand Up Comedy Pará Moss'', collective texts with Trupe Pará (Pará Troop) *2012: ''Theory of Silence'' (''Teorema do Silêncio'') by Caplan Neves *2012: ''As Mindelenses'' (''The Mindelians'', sometimes as ''Gramportians'') - collective texts with Trupe Pará (Pará Troop) *2013: ''Sete Pequenas Peça, Para Sete Grandes Crises'' - collective text with Trupe Pará (Pará Troop) *2013: ''

'' by William Shakespeare *2016 - ''Strangers'' by José Luis Peixoto'', co-produced with Teatro Rivoli in Porto, Portugal

References

External links

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GTCCPM's website
{{São Vicente Mindelo Performing arts in Cape Verde Culture of São Vicente, Cape Verde 1996 establishments in Cape Verde