Maria do Céu Ribeiro
Acting
Biography
Maria do Céu Ribeiro is an actress. She completed the acting course at the Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo (ACE), Porto, in 1993. She started her professional career in 1994 with William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, directed by Silviu Purcărete, at Teatro Nacional S. João. She is one of the founders of the theatre company As Boas Raparigas, and she featured in the plays it presented, such as Javier Tomeo’s “Historias Mínimas”, Alberto Moravia’s “Paradise”, Plato’s “Phaedo”, and Howard Barker’s “Dead Hands”, “Deep Wives/Shallow Animals” and “Und”, all directed by Rogério de Carvalho, among many others. She has been teaching voice/oral expression at ACE since 1998.
Known For
Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.
Dialogues After the End
1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is confined to the forest, where Afonso decides to heal them by trying to understand what is affecting their soul. Will he manage to save them?