Eduarda Dionísio (1946

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– 22 May 2023 Lisbon) was a Portuguese writer and playwright.

Career

She was the daughter of

Mário Dionísio Mário Dionísio de Assis Monteiro (July 16, 1916, in Lisbon, Portugal – November 17, 1993, in Lisbon, Portugal) was a Portuguese critic, writer, painter, and professor. A multifaceted personality – poet, novelist, essayist, critic, painter ...

and Maria Letícia Reis Clemente da Silva. She graduated in Languages from the

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. She was a secondary school teacher at several schools in Lisbon, including Camões Secondary School. She was also the author, with her mother, of school books for teaching Portuguese, published between 1972 and 1975. She was part of several theater groups at the Faculty of Arts and Ateneu Cooperativo, having founded the group Contra Regra (1983), where he dedicated himself to literary criticism. She collaborated in theater groups such as «O Bando» and « Teatro da Cornucópia ». As a teacher, she was a union leader at SPGL (Greater Lisbon Teachers' Union) in 1977. She developed various cultural activities (teaching, theater, press, and translation. As a translator, she translated authors as diverse as

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and

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. She ran Casa da Achada, in Mouraria, where the archive of Mário Dionísio is located. Dionísio died in Lisbon on May 22, 2023, aged 77.

Writings and reception

''Antes que a noite venha''

The conception of ''Antes que a noite venha'' came about after a playwriting challenge from actor

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, but written to exemplify the capabilities of four specific actresses he named. Because of this, the piece was created for a specific ''

mise-en-scène (; or "what is put into the scene") is the stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production, both in the visual arts through storyboarding, visual themes, and cinematography and in narrative-storytelling through ...

'' and it was described by Maria de Fátima Silva as "not aiming to be a theatrical text but rather a text for the theatre".

Works

* ''Comente o seguinte texto''. Lisboa: Plátano, 1972. * ''Retrato dum amigo enquanto falo''. Lisboa. O Armazém das Letras, 1979. * ''Histórias, memórias, imagens e mitos duma geração curiosa''. Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores, 1981. * ''Pouco tempo depois (as tentações)''. Lisboa: Gradiva,. 1984. * ''Alguns lugares muito comuns: diário de uns quantos dias que não abalaram o mundo''. Lisboa: Gradiva, 1987. * ''Antes que a Noite Venha''. Lisboa: Cotovia: Teatro Nacional D. Maria II,. 1992. * ''Títulos, ações, obrigações: a cultura em Portugal, 1974 -1994''. Lisboa: Edições Salamandra, 1993. * «Práticas culturais» in REIS, António (coord.). ''Portugal: 20 anos de democracia''. Lisboa: Temas e Debates, 1996, * ''As histórias não têm fim''. Lisboa: Cotovia, 1997.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dionisio, Eduarda 1946 births 2023 deaths Writers from Lisbon 20th-century Portuguese dramatists and playwrights University of Lisbon alumni