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Asdrúbal Trouxe O Trombone
Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone is the name of a Brazilian theatrical group that operated in the 1970s with a comedic and anarchic style. History Until the middle of the 1970s, ''Asdrúbal trouxe o trombone ('') was just an code phrase between actress Regina Casé and her father, Brazilian TV pioneer to leave when there was an inconvenience during a meeting or the mood in a party was fading. In these cases, he would say to her "Olha, o Asdrúbal trouxe o trombone", and they would quickly leave the situation. With influences from Monty Python, and led by Casé and Hamilton Vaz Pereira in Rio de Janeiro in 1974, it was made up of a theatre group that helped to create a new generation of talent for Brazilian theatre. The group, defined by their deconstruction of many theatre concepts, inspired many other theatre troupes in Rio, including Companhia Tragicômica Jaz-o-Coração, Banduendes Por Acaso Estrelados, Beijo na Boca, and Diz-Ritmia. At their debut in 1974, Asdrúbal gained atten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Casé
Regina Maria Barreto Casé OMC (born 25 February 1954) is a Brazilian actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and television presenter. Career In 1974, Casé, together with Hamilton Vaz Pereira, Jorge Alberto Soares, Luiz Arthur Peixoto e Daniel Dantas, founded a theater company called Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone ("Asdrúbal brought the trombone") in Rio de Janeiro. The group was influential in the cultural scene of Rio in the late 1970s. The group's debut production was an adaptation of '' The Inspector General'' by Nikolai Gogol. For her performance in that production, Casé won the Governor's Prize for breakout actress. Another important production was ''Trate-me Leão'' in 1977, which won the Molière Prize. Casé also began appearing in films in the 1970s, including ''Chuvas de Verão'' ("Summer Rains") (1978) directed by Cacá Diegues. Her film career included some of the classics of Brazilian cinema in the 1980s, including ''Eu Te Amo'' ("I Love You") (1981) by Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monty Python
Monty Python, also known as the Pythons, were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. The group came to prominence for the sketch comedy series '' Monty Python's Flying Circus'', which aired on the BBC from 1969 to 1974. Their work then developed into a larger collection that included live shows, films, albums, books, and musicals; their influence on comedy has been compared to the Beatles' influence on music. (The live version of the Web page does not contain the quoted line, but the archived version does.) Their sketch show has been called "an important moment in the evolution of television comedy". ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' was loosely structured as a sketch show, but its innovative stream-of-consciousness approach and Gilliam's animation skills pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in style and content. A self-contained comedy unit, the Pythons had creative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton Vaz Pereira
Hamilton de Souza Pinto Vaz Pereira (born 10 December 1951) is a Brazilian director, author, actor, composer, and musical director. Biography Vaz Pereira directed every piece from the Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone in the 1970s, along with Regina Casé, Daniel Dantas, Jorge Alberto, and Luiz Fernando Guimarães, among others. He was considered the leader of the group. He studied theatre at Teatro O Tablado with Maria Clara Machado. In 2014, he participated in some episodes of the Multishow Multishow is an entertainment channel owned by Canais Globo, Grupo Globo's cable and satellite television channel operator. It was launched in 1991, as one of the company's first four channels (with Telecine, Top Sport – now SporTV – and GNT ... series ''Por Isso Eu Sou Vingativa'' as Rodrigues. Vaz Pereira was married to Casé from 1973 to 1977. Filmography Film Television References External links Itaú CulturalRevista Contigo {{DEFAULTSORT:Vaz Pereira, Hamilton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the Americas, sixth-most-populous city in the Americas. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese people, Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a List of states of the Portuguese Empire, state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil, Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent John VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), The Nose", "Viy (story), Viy", "The Overcoat", and "Nevsky Prospekt (story), Nevsky Prospekt". These stories, and others such as "Diary of a Madman (Nikolai Gogol), Diary of a Madman", have also been noted for their Proto-Surrealism, proto-surrealist qualities. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol used the technique of defamiliarization when a writer presents common things in an unfamiliar or strange way so that the reader can gain new perspectives and see the world differently. His early works, such as ''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'', were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and Ukrainian folklore, folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in contemporary Russian Empire, Russia (''The Government I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Government Inspector
''The Government Inspector'', also known as ''The Inspector General'' (, literally: "Inspector"), is a satirical play by Russian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the play was revised for an 1842 edition. Based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, the play is a comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the political corruption of contemporary Russia. The dream-like scenes of the play, often mirroring each other, whirl in the endless vertigo of self-deception around the main character, Khlestakov (rendered in some English translations as Hlestakov), who personifies irresponsibility, light-mindedness, and absence of measure. "He is full of meaningless movement and meaningless fermentation incarnate, on a foundation of placidly ambitious inferiority" (D. S. Mirsky). The publication of the play led to a great outcry in the reactionary press. It took the personal intervention of Tsar Nicholas I to have the play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luiz Fernando Guimarães
Luiz Fernando Guimarães (born November 28, 1949, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian actor. At the beginning of the 1980s, he participated in the Asdrubal Trouxe o Trombone, a group of actors from Rio de Janeiro who wrote, produced, and performed their plays. Regina Casé, Evandro Mesquita, Patrícia Travassos, among others, were his mates at Asdrubal. Luiz Fernando and the Asdrubal were very popular and successful. During the 2000s, he became famous country-wide performing TV ads to a government bank. He is famous for his role in Os Normais. References Brazilian male stage actors 1949 births Living people Brazilian people of Portuguese descent Brazilian male television actors Brazilian gay actors Male actors from Rio de Janeiro (city) {{Brazil-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry (; ; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French Artistic symbol, symbolist writer who is best known for his play ''Ubu Roi'' (1896)'','' often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealism, Surrealist, and Futurism, Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and later the theatre of the absurd In the 1950s and 1960s. He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics. Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, and his mother was from Brittany. He wrote in a variety of hybrid genres and styles, prefiguring the Post-modern literature, postmodern, including novels, poems, short plays and opéra bouffe, opéras bouffes, absurdist essays and speculative journalism. His texts are considered examples of absurdist literature and postmodern philosophy. Biography and works His father Anselme Jarry (1837–1895) was a salesman who descended into alcoholism; his mother Caroline, née Quernest (1842–1893), was interested in music and literature, but her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrícia Pillar
Patricia Gadelha Pillar (born 11 January 1964) is a Brazilian actress, producer, film director, screenwriter, and television presenter. Biography Pillar was born in Brasília, Distrito Federal to Nuno Pillar and Lucy Gadelha. She was born only three months before the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état and due to her father's occupation as a Navy officer, she lived in various places of Brazil, such as Vitória, Espírito Santo and Santos, São Paulo prior to settling in Rio de Janeiro at 14. Pillar always wanted to be an actress, so she started working while in high school in order to pay for her acting lessons. At 16, she became a photographic model. She studied journalism but gave it up to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. She joined the theatre group Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone alongside Regina Casé, before getting her first film role in ''Para Viver um Grande Amor'', alongside singer Djavan. That role granted her a part in the famous 1985 Rede Globo telenovela '' Roque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Dantas (actor)
Daniel Tunes Dantas (; born 28 June 1954) is a Brazilian actor. In 1999, he won the Best Actor award at the Festival de Recife for his role in ''Traição''. He is the son of actor Nelson Dantas. Partial filmography * ''Tudo Bem'' (1978) as José Roberto's friend * '' Chega Mais'' (1980, TV Series) as Tatá * ''Engraçadinha'' (1981) as Zózimo * ''O Sonho Não Acabou'' (1982) as João Carlos * ''Fonte da Saudade'' (1985) * '' Sinhá Moça'' (1986, TV Series) as Ricardo Fontes * ''Sonho de Valsa'' (1987) * ''Brasileiras e Brasileiros'' (1990-1991, TV Series) as Orlando * ''O Dono do Mundo'' (1991, TV Series) as Júlio * ''Mulheres de Areia'' (1993, TV Series) as Breno Soares de Azevedo * '' Quatro por Quatro'' (1994-1995, TV Series) as Celso * ''The Interview'' (1995) as Editor do Brasilian Tribune * '' Explode Coração'' (1995, TV Series) as Tadeu * ''Pequeno Dicionário Amoroso'' (1997) as Gabriel * ''O Homem Nu'' (1997) as Mendonça * '' Anjo Mau'' (1997-1998, TV Series) as T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cazuza
Agenor de Miranda Araújo Neto, better known as Cazuza (; April 4, 1958 – July 7, 1990), was a Brazilian singer and songwriter, born in Rio de Janeiro. Along with Raul Seixas, Renato Russo and Os Mutantes, Cazuza, both while fronting Barão Vermelho and at solo career, is considered one of the best exponents of Brazilian rock music. In his 9-year career, he sold more than 5 million albums and achieved 11 number one singles and 18 Top 10 singles in Brazil. Biography Early life and influences Son of the record producer João Araújo and the amateur singer Maria Lúcia Araújo, Cazuza always had close contact with music. Influenced since early childhood by the strong values of Brazilian music, he had a special preference for the sad, dramatic overtones of Cartola, Lupicinio Rodrigues, Dolores Duran, and Maysa. He began to write lyrics and poems around 1965. In late 1974, a vacation in London, England, acquainted him with the music of Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin and The Rolli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
