MARY POPPINS, A MULHER QUE SALVOU O MUNDO

A raving tragic parody.
Time Out Magazine (best show of the week for 3 issues)

An author who thinks words like they were music.
Público newspaper

Endowed with efficiency and with a sound and rhythmic component, fulfilling and euphoric.
Expresso newspaper

Surprising, puzzling, funny, light, deep, analytical, meticulous, disguised as naïve, posing as a childish lullaby, in the pop imaginary (or even sub-pop, as they say of the sub-20s), Ricardo Neves-Neves has been building, as an author and as a director, the loosest, freest and most unique shows I’ve seen around. As for me, I love it.

Jorge Silva Melo

Mary Poppins presents herself to a new family, applying for a nanny position. She must submit to a job interview, showing her vast curriculum and speaking about her long career. The family is anxious to welcome her, and have many requests for her to fulfill. The show explores the musical feeling of words, the choral moments, the absurd of meanings, assimilating the non- sense, while trying to employ the old nanny.

The text was presented in 2012 at the Obrador d’Estíu, a meeting of young playwrights, promoted by Sala Beckett, in Barcelona, under the guidance of Simon Stephens. It was directed by the german Thomas Sauerteig, in catalan and with catalan actors, at the Festival Grec.

The text is published in the Livrinhos de Teatro nr. 80 collection (Artistas Unidos / Cotovia / Teatro do Eléctrico).