The promise payer

Name: The promise payer
Brand: Totvsrj-record-dc
SKU: 9788528614800
Price: 59.90 BRL
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Autor: Dias Gomes

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Sinopse

A hugely successful work in Brazil and around the world, The Promise Payer inspired the film of the same title that won the Palme d'Or at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. This edition features a blurb signed by Ferreira Gullar.

In this internationally renowned play, the author narrates the moving ordeal of the simple Zé-do-Burro: to fulfill a promise made to Iansã, for the healing of his donkey, he shares his farm with poor farmers and carries a heavy wooden cross for sixty leagues, with the aim of depositing it inside the church of Santa Bárbara, in Salvador.

Dias Gomes is a master of his craft. He has demonstrated this abundantly in each of his works. And *The Promise Payer* could not fail to reflect this assured mastery of the means of dramatic expression. The action, which unfolds in the play's opening moments, is conducted with intensity and economy, with each frame, each act, irresistibly drawing us to the final outcome. The narrative is clear and dense, with repercussions that always extend beyond the spoken word.

Unlike many quality theatrical works, which begin with momentum and sometimes maintain it until a certain point, only to frustrate us at the end, this play by Dias Gomes is a complete and finished whole: its ending results not in frustration, but in fulfillment. And to achieve this, more than mastering the technique is required: the work must combine those imponderable factors that give birth to a true work of art.

And this is all the more significant because this play affirmed yesterday and reaffirms today the effective possibilities of Brazilian theater: a theater capable of revealing the universality of our experience, of imposing ourselves as creators of culture.