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ious Hedda theater prize in 2011 forbeing a production that, according tothe jury, “is an invitation to reflection, asingular story about the human being’s relationshipwith great existential issues”.Romeu Correia ForumP a g e 2 5Le prix MartinEugène LabicheStaging by Peter SteinAlmadaOver 12 | 1h45Tue 09 18H00In Le prix Martin, a comedy in whichLabiche corrosively depicts his favoritecharacter (the gullible, cowardburgeois from the Second French Empire),he approaches some of the themesthat have made directors such as PatriceChéreau, Jacques Lassalle, or KlausMichael Grüber become interested inthis Author: egocentrism, vanity, cupidity- and marital infidelity.Eugène Labiche (Paris, 1815-1888),fruitful author of vaudevilles — has supposedlywritten more than two hundredplays, alone or co-authoring — and verypopular in rooms like the Palais-Royal,the Gymnase or the Varietés, is seen asone of the precursors of Absurd Theater,along with his follower, Georges Feydeau.Authors like Ionesco or Adamovhave noticed in his black humor andferocity he used to represent his time’sbourgeoisie traces that announced asort of modernity that has also occupiedPhilippe Soupault, the surrealist.Among his most famous plays, one cancite Un chapeau de paille d’Italie (1851),Le voyage de monsieur Perrichon (1860),and La cagnotte (1864).Peter Stein is considered one of the stillworking masters of European theater— he launched names like Edith Clever,Bruno Ganz, or Jutta Lampe — andhe has been professing the need to giveto actors the freedom to take acting andemotion to the level of paroxism. He isa very strong supporter of the text as afounding theatrical matter and Steinspeaks out against “the violence posedupon plays perpetrated by those who haveno idea about the text before them andwho end up projecting on it their own littleobsessions. I have nothing against thoselittle boys that cannot analyze a text, playsome music by their favorite band and sellit as a contemporary work - that’s evenfunny when it has to do with youngsters.But not when you’re older. In intellectualterms, you’ve got to be ashamed”.Teatro Nacional D. Maria IILisboaOver 12 | 2h30Wed 10 21H00 Thu 11 21H00P a g e 2 7Krapp’s last tapeSamuel BeckettStaging by Peter SteinShort one-act play, Krapp’s last tapewas written by Samuel Beckett(1906-1989) in 1958 and premieredthat same year at the Royal CourtTheatre, in London, directed by Becketthimself and with Patrick Magee asKrapp. Action takes place in the day of