This Friday, March 15 at 8:30 PM “The Book of Disquiet” by Fernando Pessoa.
Fernando Pessoa was born in 1889 in Lisbon. For thirty years, from his adolescence to his death, he never left his city of Lisbon, where he led the obscure life of an office worker. But on March 8, 1914, the introverted, idealistic, and anxious twenty-five-year-old poet saw a double emerge from within himself: Bernardo Soares, who in sumptuous prose, keeps the journal of his “disquiet.”
To give voice to this text, Elise Clary will engage in this balancing act between art and life that Pessoa humorously summarized as: my poet’s neck in my employee collar.
To bring Fernando Pessoa’s “The Book of Disquiet” to the stage, the B.A.L. Company found it interesting to convey its sensitivity by lending it the voice of an actress. He, who wrote throughout his life under many identities, will be portrayed by a young woman.
