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Cape Verde: On the lack of a theatre in Praia

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 @ 20:06 UTC

by Paula Góes

Countries:: Cape Verde
Topics:: Arts & Culture
Languages:: Portuguese

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João Branco [pt] on the lack of a theatre in the Cape Verde capital: “Perhaps it is here that lies the starting point for us to question the fact that in a city so full of life, of poetry, of contrasts, colors, smells, feelings of impossibilities, ironies, absurd, in short, in a blatantly theatrical city, there isn't, at the moment, a theatre that does justice to it”.

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