5Go Theatre Co. are delighted to announce that we will be bringing our innovative production of Miss Margarida’s Way by Roberto Athayde to the Brighton Fringe Festival in June 2023. We will be at the Actors Theatre in Kemp Town on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of June.
Miss Margarida’s Way has had very successful London runs at The Etcetera, The Drayton Arms, Bread and Roses and The Canal Café Theatres.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/gkKwbYLmfps
About Miss Margarida’s Way
Miss Margarida is your teacher. Wildly unpredictable and bursting with sexual frustration, she hurls her theories at her students with a mix of seduction and aggression. Her curriculum is unique; her lessons funny and insane; her methods sacrosanct. Join her Year 8 class and experience education the Miss Margarida way.
This darkly hilarious satire on dictatorship uses Miss Margarida’s classroom to explore the relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed, with her pupils as her subjects. Miss Margarida bullies, taunts and cajoles. She is an engaging monster – the embodiment of autocracy gone mad.
**** ” Excellent … a truly compelling evening… hugely entertaining, funny and shocking” (Steve Caplin – Everything Theatre)
Originally written as a tour de force for one actress, our production uses two – to take on the many faces of Miss Margarida. This was a bold move, but one that seems to have paid off as the reaction from audience members and critics has been extremely positive:
“It’s an innovative technique, and one that works superbly” (Steve Caplin – Everything Theatre)
“With this creative approach, the play not only highlights the bipolar division of Miss Magarida’s speeches and mentalities, but also reminds us what Miss Magarida represents is more than just a character, but a representation of an ideology, the totalitarianism authority and the head of a distorted society.” (Shirley Sin – Theatre News)
The play was written in 1971 as an allegory about totalitarianism and a satire on the politics that Roberto Athayde found on his return to Brazil after studying abroad. It was initially banned and then censored in Brazil. Tragically, it seems as relevant today as when it was written, especially in the light of recent world events…
With Hanna Luna and Leena Makoff as Miss Margarida (“pitch perfect performances” Everything Theatre).
The Audience, along with Hugo Linton, become her students.
Sound and Lighting by Rebecca Lyon. Directed by Julie Drake.
“Credits to the artistic direction and the excellent performance by the cast,” (Shirley Sin – Theatre News)
Running Time – 1hr 45mins (including interval)
Age Restrictions – 14+
Content Warnings: Audience Interaction, Drug Abuse. Swearing, Violence. This production contains strong and abusive and outdated language. Its themes are those of oppression and dictatorship and Miss Margarida’s opinions are not those of 5Go.
Where and When
The Actors theatre, 4 Princes St, Brighton BN2 1RD
2nd, 3rd, 4th June at 6.30pm
