The best in Bahia’s theater in 2007 will be known during the XV Braskem Theater Award. The award ceremony will be held on May 5, at 8pm, in the main hall of Castro Alves Theater. The award was created with the objective of valorizing, acknowledging and awarding Bahian theater production, making room for the emergence of new talents.

The XV Braskem Theater Award will acknowledge the highlights of 2007 in ten categories: best original script, direction, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, revelation, special category, best children’s play, best adult play. There are a total of 41 adult plays and 14 children’s productions in the running.

This year, the ceremony will be directed by actor and director Filinto Coelho, and conducted by actress Nadja Turenko. With the theme "The Woman on Stage", Filinto’s proposal is to work the beauty and emotion and he will portray the vital cycle - from youth to maturity - a trajectory of all the women on the stage. "The event seeks to valorize the award winners, those truly responsible for the event. The woman is an involving theme and everyone should expect surprises," underscores Nadja.

Tribute

The award will also pay tribute to Mario Gadelha, from the state of Pará. Born February 3, 1934, he began to do theater in Bahia in 1956 with the Amateur Theater group. That same year, he traveled to Rio de Janeiro, representing Bahia, with the play "A Grande Estiagem" (The Great Drought), directed by Clênio Vanderlei, to participate in the Amateur Theater Festival. There, he replaced an actor in the first staging of "Auto da Compadecida", also directed by Clênio Vanderlei, from Pernambuco. He was part of two other stagings of this same play: one with Martim Gonçalves (1958) and the other with the director Maurice Vanot (1970), where he interpreted Chicó.

In 1969, Gadelha acted in the play that inaugurated Vila Velha Theater, "Eles não usam Black-tie" (They Don’t Wear Black Tie), by Gianfrancesco Guarnieri. "Theater is the great school of life. It was means of support. The theater gave me the tools and the enormous hope for social change,’ he said.

Gadelha participated in more than 60 plays over his 52-year career. His latest work was in 2007, in the play "Terceiro Sinal", directed by Deolindo Checucci, with colleagues like Haidyl Linhares and Wilson Mello in the cast.

Nominees
The indications of those in the running for the XV Braskem Theater Award are made by a commission that is renewed every year and that watches all of the plays staged in Salvador.

In 2007, this difficult and pleasure-packed task was up to actor and director Antonio Godi; Antrifo Sanches, professor of dance at the Federal University of Bahia; poet and editor Claudius Portugal; Fátima Barretto, journalist, actress, Master and PhD student in Scenic Arts (UFBA); actress Isa Trigo; as well as José Antonio Saja, professor of the Department of Philosophy at UFBA, and journalist and theater critic Marcos Uzel.

Nominees for the 2007 XV Braskem Theater Award
Actress:
Carolina Kharo Ribeiro (Grand Théâtre: Pão & Circo) (Grand Theater: Bread & Circus)
Heloísa Pimenta (O Dia 14) (The 14th)
Monize Moura (Uma por Outra - Histórias de Arthur Azevedo) (One by Another - Stories by Arthur Azevedo)
Pólis Nunes (Sagrada Partida) (Sacred Departure)

Actor:
Amarílio Sales (A Casa de Bernarda Alba) (The Home of Bernarda Alba)
Carlos Betão (Josefina, A Cantora dos Ratos) (Josephine, The Singer for the Rats)
Diogo Lopes Filho (Josefina, A Cantora dos Ratos) (Josephine, The Singer for the Rats)
Francisco André (Auto da Gamela) (Gamela’s Short Play)

Supporting Actress:
Andréa Nunes (A Casa de Bernarda Alba/As Bruxas de Salem) (The Home of Bernarda Alba / The Witches of Salem)
Lívia França (Zona Contaminada) (Contaminated Zone)
Simone Brault (Como Almodóvar) (Like Almodóvar)
Tatiane Carcanholo (Viva o Povo Brasileiro) (Long Live the Brazilian People)

Supporting Actor:
André Rosa (A Casa de Bernarda Alba) (The Home of Bernarda Alba)
Antonio Soares (Uma Mulher Vestida de Sol) (A Woman Dressed in the Sun)
Léo Santis (O Dia 14) (The 14th)
Érico Brás (Áfricas) (Africas)

Screenplay:
Ângelo Flávio (O Dia 14) (The 14th)
Heraldo Souza (O Aluguel) (The Rent)
Sonia Robatto (Ciranda do Medo) (Ring-Around-The-Rosy of Fear)
Tom Figueiredo (Pedro e a Cobra-de-fogo) (Peter and the Fire Snake)

Special Category:
Lulu Pugliese - Choreography (Ciranda do medo) (Ring-Around-The-Rosy of Fear)
Mini Creation Workshop - Scenography (Pedro e a Cobra-de-fogo) (Peter and the Fire Snake)
Roberto de Abreu, Eudes Cunha, Laura Franco - Musical Direction (Auto da Gamela) (Gamela’s Short Play)
Zuarte Jr. - Costumes and Adornments (Africas)

Direction:
Ângelo Flávio (O Dia 14) (The 14th)
Fabiana Monsalú (A Casa de Bernarda Alba) (The Home of Bernarda Alba)
Osvaldo Rosa (Pedro e a Cobra-de-fogo) (Peter and the Fire Snake)
Roberto de Abreu (Auto da Gamela) (Gamela’s Short Play)

Adult Play:
A Casa de Bernarda Alba (The Home of Bernarda Alba)
Auto da Gamela (Gamela’s Short Play)
O Dia 14  (The 14th)
Shopping and Fucking

Children’s Play:
Áfricas (Africas)
Ciranda do Medo (Ring-Around-The-Rosy of Fear)
Pedro e a Cobra-de-fogo (Peter and the Fire Snake)

Revelation:
CAN - Abdias do Nascimento Center for Actors
Carolina Kharo Ribeiro - Conception (Grand Théâtre: Pão & Circo) (Grand Theater: Bread and Circus)
Emiliano D'Ávila - Actor (Shopping and Fucking)
Fabiana Monsalú - Direction (A Casa de Bernarda Alba) (The Home of Bernarda Alba)

The 2008 Commission is already working
Since theater production in Bahia does not stop, the judging commission for 2008 is already watching this year's plays. It is comprised of Hebe Alves, doctor in Scenic Arts; Gilson Rodrigues, plastic artist and scenographer; actress and coordinator at the Camaçari Theater, Vadinha Moura; Hirton Fernandes, Master in Scenic Arts from the Federal University of Bahia; Adelice Souza, theater director, writer and playwright; as well as Beth Rangel, professor at the School of Dance, UFBA and actor and Professor at the School of Theater, UFBA, Paulo Cunha.


  Service
  Date: May 5, 2008
  Time: 8:00pm
  Place: Castro Alves Theater
  Address: Praça 2 de Julho, S/N, Bairro Campo Grande, Salvador (BA)