Shows
Dende Collective’s shows are a savoury feast, often with an international feel to them, bringing together a rich mixture of styles and visual elements. Our work can take different shapes and forms: Brazilian plays in commissioned translations, adaptations, new plays, devised projects; and have been presented in theatres, on the streets and specific sites - content dictates form.
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The Church Street Masquerade 2024
Come Watch the Masked Community Performances in and around Church Street!
Masked characters will invade the Church Street area, bringing excitement and mystery to the streets. Don’t miss these enchanting performances!
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Turmoil
A New Play from Brazil - European Premiere
Once upon a time in a Jane Austenesque South-American world lust and sibling love in between Vladine and Matias brings turmoil to his marriage with Bianca. To top it all, Vladine who has come to live with her brother due to the mysterious death of her husband has brought her beloved Nataniel with her. This is a blind goat, which becomes the enemy number one of Matias’s wife, the tender Bianca or is it Branca?
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Fluxorama
A New Play from Brazil - European Premiere
Amanda takes 20 seconds to realise she lost her hearing... Luis Guilherme wakes up and realises he has lost 5 teeth and broke 8 bones and Valquiria keeps repeating her mantra 'think of the sea' in order not to quit... Three characters on the verge of a nervous breakdown face the extreme!
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The Passion of Pedro Camacho
A Devised Show inspired on a novel - in development
In a 1950s radio station, somewhere in Latin America, Pedro Camacho writes and directs a series of novelas, radio soap operas, which capture the mood of the times as well as his own fascination with others. Witness both the comedy and tragedy of Camacho and his regular cast of actors as the stories gradually reflect their own relationships in ways that are both surprising and ultimately life-affirming.
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I.F.
A Devised Show for children & Young People - in development
The time I'm going to tell you about the client was a kid. Six years of age. Name of Simon. And I'm Stoffard. No, I have no idea either. They make them up a lot of the time, when it comes to naming an IF (as we refer to ourselves) kids really use their imagination.
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La Biblioteca
A site specific project with young people using Commedia Dell'Arte
Anyone for LA BIBLIOTECA this way please. The John Rylands Library is very excited to have you here: we have discovered a rare book with the secrets of the Commedia dell'Arte: I Segreti Meravigliosi di Commedia Dell’Arte, by Flaminio Scala. I am very proud to show it to you today for the first time." It all starts as a boring lecture on this dead theatrical form, but mayhem starts when Arlecchino and co show up for real, steal the rare book and install chaos
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Spooktacular
Street Theatre For The Family
In the darkness evil waits / Hungry for our blood / But beyond the spirit gates / Lies a force for good / Demon that torments this place / Sink beneath the mud!
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Back to the Streets
Street Theatre for the city of Norwich
Make way for Exu - the trickster, Ogum - the warrior god of Iron, Iemanjá - the goddess of the sea, Xangô - the warrior god of fire and lighting and Oxum - goddess of rivers. All the way from Brazil and Cuba the orixás have taken the streets of Norwich!
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Kwaidan - Japanese Ghost Stories
A Devised Show with young people based on short stories
Dende Collective and Contact Young Actors Company create a world where dark forces and evil spirits interact with humans and change theirs destinies forever
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C-Attack!
Street Theatre for the city of Great Yarmouth
Sea Creatures took over the streets of Great Yarmouth… Did they come in peace or were they invaders? Whose side are you on? Come and decide for yourself