Tempests Essay on a Rehearsal

A documentary essay about a text that penetrates lives and lives that penetrate a text In September 2015 teatro GRIOT a theatre company based in Lisbon whose actors are mostly Afrodescendants started to rehearse Shakespeares The Tempest with acclaimed director Bruno Bravo in a little coastal village Starting with the first rehearsals the film explores Shakespeares text and the actors biographies between the play and the landscape and brings up topics such as memories home emigration and colonialism A complex mosaic of multiple voices