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Literary Tea
Literary Tea is a podcast which aims at discussing literary works and their underlying themes. The aim is to be a source of literary experiences sharing, especially for English students and whoever is interested in Literature. English students can look at it to get references to literary works. In case of Brazilian listeners, they can benefit from the podcast by having the opportunity to listen to other Brazilian people speaking English.
"A maior matéria prima da televisão é a realidade".
Em uma versão adaptada para o século XX sobre o icônico Fausto, de Goethe e Marlowe, Paulo Pontes explora temas como imagem, fama e vingança. Dr. Fasto da Silva é sobre um famoso apresentador de TV que valoriza muito o efeito da sua imagem na vida das pessoas.
Essa peça foi escrita por Paulo Pontes em 1972 e dirigida por Flávio Rangel em sua estreia, no mesmo ano. Apesar de ter tido uma morte precoce, Paulo Pontes deixou um legado na dramaturgia brasileira em um momento extremamente frutífero para a arte (década de 1960-70). Suas obras possuem um tom provocativo e diversas críticas sociais, principalmente se apoiando em preceitos do Teatro do Absurdo.
Conterrâneo de Campina Grande (PB), Paulo Pontes marcou a minha vida ao ser escolhido para um trabalho de conclusão de um curso de iniciação ao teatro que fiz em 2018. Nós encenamos Dr. Fausto da Silva no Teatro Municipal Severino Cabral em 26 de novembro de 2018, sob a direção de Regina Albuquerque.
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
Iniciamos o "comeback" do Literary Tea com um blended tea altamente provocativo e que nos rendeu uma ótima discussão. Estamos falando de Marcha para Zenturo, um drama publicado em 2012, de autoria da atriz, dramaturga e diretora brasileira Grace Passô.
A peça, que flerta com a não convencionalidade do drama moderno aliada a elementos identificáveis também no Teatro do Absurdo, está ambientada no século XXV e mostra como as relações humanas podem ser frágeis.
Em uma simbiose de passado, presente e futuro, Marcha para Zenturo deixa muitas perguntas em aberto, algumas das quais tentamos desvendar nesse episódio. Estamos ansiosos pata receber o feedback de vocês sobre esse episódio e a nova fase do podcast!
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
Sometimes life can hit harder than we can endure and we find ourselves lost amidst the darkest shadows, thus trying to find a way out of such lethargy.
Some will seek suicide, some will turn to religion or grasp anything capable of sustaining the desire to remain alive.
We build and believe in several illusions as a means of finding meanings to our lives. In his most famous play "Waiting for Godot", Samuel Beckett makes the idea of absurdity the most concrete as possible: a play in which "nothing happens" has so much in it linguistically speaking that it can really bother us and make us think about the Godots to whom we're tied to, therefore hindering our life perspectives.
In this second part on The Theater of the Absurd, you'll find reflections such as these and more! It's now available. We hope you enjoy it as much as we had a great time recording it.
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
The Dramatic genre of literature has its own conventions and aspects which naturally changed across the centuries.
In the opening episode of this Litrilogy entitled "How real is life on stage?", we invite you to join us for an overview of the main forms of western dramatic art. Starting with the Greeks, passing though the Middle Ages up to the modern ideas of drama, and the overflowing of different ways of constructing the dramatic action.
Before we get to the Theatre of the Absurd in the 20th century, we believe it's important to understand what were the changes that allowed a myriad of expressions on the stages, thus making Drama survive.
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
We've been walking through dark forests, old castles, surgery rooms, haunted gardens, amongst other places where we had to face the unknown or to fear something.
Welcome to the last episode of the Haunted Nights Litrilogy developed in collaboration with Kelly Oliveira, our special guest.
This episode is called "How much are we seduced by darkness?" and we talk about how the Gothic has survived in other medias apart from literature.
We focus especially on music and film productions that deal with Gothic elements, either traditional or new and contemporary modes of expressing the horror.
We're so happy to be closing another Litrilogy! We really hope you enjoy this episode!
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983); One Day The Only Butterflies Left Will Be In Your Chest As You March Towards Your Death, by Bring Me The Horizon feat. Amy Lee (2020); Her Ghost In The Fog, by Cradle of Filth.
In this episode, we focus mainly on four stories by authors who are not English. We tried to present Gothic stories from countries other than England, since we already discussed the early Gothic novels in our first episode.
Here we talk about a Russian, a Japanese, and two Brazilian Gothic and horror tales as an attempt to understand the Gothic elements and characteristics beyond the European notions of Gothic literature.
We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did!
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
This episode has a very introductory bias. We discuss the first uses of the word “Gothic” as well as its manifestations in Literature, especially from the middle to the end of the Eighteenth century in England.
We focus on the characteristics of the first Gothic novel “The Castle of Otranto” and how its form and subject matter later inspired Gothic novels as a literary genre. And, talking about literature, we also speak of some differences between Romantic writings and Gothic writings.
You’ll find an interesting question posed by us regarding the reasons why the Gothic, the horror and the supernatural fascinate us that much. You’re thus invited to open the doors of the dark and ancient castles to find the secrets of the Gothic with us!
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
Bodies, sexualities, gender identities that diverge from the pre-established norms, the queer has been considerably developing either politically or theoretically.
During this Litrilogy, we discussed how non normative sex/genre identities have been represented in literature, from the Ancient Greeks up to today.
In this third episode, particularly, we talk about the contemporary concept of "queer" and how it is represented in other medias such as films, series and music.
We also highlight the importance of adaptations for the propagation of LGBTQIA+ works.
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
It's pride month and we're bringing to you the second episode of this beautiful Litrilogy "Resistant Rainbow"!!!
In this episode, we outline gay and lesbian narratives and authors from the nineteenth and twentieth century. We discuss how some of these works were published posthumously or are not even well known today.
Moreover, we talk about the importance of scholars who study these works as well as those who are responsible for their translation. Translators play a fundamental role for the spreading of these texts and their recognition.
We've been learning a lot with the production of "Resistant Rainbow". We hope you feel the same.
Make sure to listen to this new episode!
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
"Things were different back then", we may hear these or similar words especially from older generations to denote that today we live in a context too liberal which accepts everything. Well, words such as "homosexual" and "gay" are indeed pretty recent historically, but it doesn't mean that same-sex relations didn't exist in the past. They might not have happened the way we conceive them today, for each time and place have their own social rules and gender roles.
In the opening-episode of this Litrilogy, we present an overview of same-sex relations in Ancient Greece and Rome and during the Middle Ages, as well as how theses relations were depicted in literature and other documents of these societies.
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
Contemporary literature is somehow difficult to define, but in this third and last episode of Frozen Flowers Litrilogy we talk to our friend and scholar Ana Paula Herculano about some female authors and their works from the last decades of twentieth century up to today.
We believe that women currently have more space and visibility in different literary fields, but what themes do they talk about? Which places and spaces do they speak from? What can we expect from the female authorship for the future?
Listen to "Which paths is female authorship walking to?" to engage in these discussions.
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
Feminine writing, feminine literature, how does it sound to you?!
In this second episode of the current Frozen Flowers Litrilogy we discuss our experiences reading the 20th century authors Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector and Lygia Fagundes Teles. More than only sharing our impressions, we try to expand the idea of feminine literature or feminine authorship, and how both expressions can have different meanings when it comes to reinforcing women's role when producing literary works.
We hope you enjoy it!
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
"How to sew a sowing sisterhood?" is the first episode of our second Litrilogy Frozen Flowers. In this episode we talk about curious aspects of women's writing from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries English lit.
We discuss some authors and their works as well as their important for the literary scenario when it comes to women's writing.
If you're interested on this topic or if you want to get to know a little bit more about it, make sure to listen to this episode!
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
The last episode of our first Litrilogy is finally available for you!
This episode called "Can the poetic subject speak" features our guest Rafael and with him we discuss, suggest and give examples of authors whose voices aren't valued or given the proper recognition due to social-structural issues such as racism, LGBTphobia, sexism, colonialism etc.
Producing this episode with Rafael was a great pleasure as well as very beneficial to us.
We really hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
Writing poetry... what for?!
In the second episode of this Litrilogy, we discuss our views and experiences on the benefits we can get from writing and how important it can be to organize our feelings and thoughts by creating a piece of literary art.
You're welcome to join us in this discussion and feel encouraged to start writing!
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
We present you the first episode of Lyrical Voices. In this first part, entitled "Why keep reading poetry?" we talk about some of our experiences with poems, from the very first contacts with poetry to the most recent ones as well as what we like and don't like reading and why.
We really hope you enjoy this discussion and also share it with your friends!
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
It is quite known that Oscar Wilde has a great importance to literature. However, his fairy tales are not so frequently brought into the scene. In this episode we discuss his book The Happy Prince and other Tales intended for children and how we can find meanings beyond the surface as well as Wilde's characteristic ironic style. You're invited to join us in this (not so) enchanted discussion.
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
It's extremely important to value the national artistic and literary production. The writers of our homeland always have much to tell us through their works. In this fourth episode, we discuss how Brazil is portrayed on some works written and published in the twentieth century, a time when so many different authors and styles flourished. We had so much fun and were so eager to talk about this and show a little bit of our national literature! We do hope y'all appreciate this episode!
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
Yin and Yang, two opposite energies which lap over each other, at times one being predominant over the other. They’re opposite, but complementary. We all have our share of goodness and evil. As human beings, it'd be impossible for us to be completely bad or completely good. These two realities are constantly manifested through our actions and thoughts. Together, what we consider good and evil are two parts of this whole, which must be in balance. In this episode, we discuss how morals have to do with this "good" and "evil" duality, and how such duality is represented in literary works over time.
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
We know that there are books which are considered classics, but what exactly would be a classic literary work? What's their importance? Who do you think is the major classic reference in English Literature? You can think over these questions with us in our new LT episode. (This episode was first published in July 6th)
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)
Have you ever thought about the role literature plays in our lives?! If you haven't, then join us in this discussion in which we talk about some of our reading experiences and how they've been shaping our identity, our self and who we are! (This episode was first published in June 1st)
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Soundtrack: Desespoir Agreable from Erik Satie played by Mal Waldron (1983)