A unique theatre show featuring a “special” teacher, who will turn all spectators into her students, based on the play “Miss Margarida’s Way” by the Brazilian playwright Roberto Athayde. Produced by Vamvakou Revival, the show was first staged at the school of Vamvakou in the beginning of 2023, within the framework of the initiative for the revival of Vamvakou with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), and is now starting its journey to other theatre stages, art & cultural spaces.
The story is unfolding in a school class, dominated by a teacher, Miss Margarida, who uses all kinds of means in order to impose herself on her students. Miss Margarida is presumed to be a pawn of the system, who is reproducing its values, but, at the same time is ready to revolt; a woman on the verge of sanity and insanity, who ends up devasted by the same values that she advocates and her notorious self. The play “Miss Margarida’s Way” is a life lesson that may be considered as currently relevant, given the political circumstances prevailing around the globe.
It is a deeply political play that was first staged in Rio de Janeiro in 1973, under brutal dictatorship in Brazil and Latin America. It was originally banned and, after being considerably censored, was staged again to become a huge success first in Rio de Janeiro and then throughout the world.
