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Originally Posted by danzo
(Post 2477445)
so are these dvds worth getting? if so, where are they?
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About a year ago they had a page where one could buy two boxes of DVDs, of very old plays. One box was of the 5 volumes of 'Os Sertões', and the other one was of 4 old plays, I don't remember their names now.
You can search and find all the 5 videos of 'Os Sertões' at hemisphericinstitute, plus additional material, like pdf's with the script. They are the very same videos of the DVDs, but perhaps they lack the subtitles (I don't remember) and I don't know of a decent way of downloading that flash stream stuff to a video file. My favorite part of 'Os Sertões' is 'O Homem 2', because there are very good naked audience scenes. And consider this was like 14 years ago.
Now that webpage where they sold the DVDs does not exist anymore. I dimly remember of lots and lots of those boxes of DVDs at the entrance of the theater, and I was amazed at how much they are wanted by people on the Internet but, at least by my moment's perception, people who went to the theater didn't seem to be buying them. I wouldn't bet all those boxes have been sold, perhaps they are lost at some of the directors' or actresses' houses (since they do a lot of their work at home). But maybe my intuition of stuck DVDs is just plain wrong, who knows.
After they played 'Macumba Antropófaga' in 2011/2012 their website said they were preparing a DVD, but the following years I searched and searched and I convinced myself that they were actually never finished and people of the theater decided not to talk about it anymore. I just convinced myself, I might be wrong again. I think I had tried asking them by e-mail but got no response.
See, those streams are bad quality because they are made live, at the moment, there is probably limitation in bandwidth and 'editing' is largely by chance, selecting this one or that one camera. Preparing a DVD is very very expensive, it takes time and patience of skilled people. But of course the results are much better. Consider what they recently did with 'Bacantes' - they didn't make a DVD, but alongside the live streams they prepared a high quality version 'taking pieces of different presentations'. I'd bet they might do the same with 'Macumba Antropófaga'.
By the way, they recently lost their Petrobras funding and are looking for new ways of making money. I myself would pay lots for a collection of high quality edited versions of each one of the naked-audience-end-of-first-act-stuff, for each day the play has been and will be performed. If only they knew that and could prepare it somehow! You guys could help me bugging them about it at their Twitter, Facebook or at the live stream chat. If I did get time conversion right, naked audience in live stream has been starting Saturdays and Sundays at about 22:00 UTC, perhaps a little earlier.
Sorry if there is anything weird in my English, it's not my first language and I've written this in a hurry. I can help you guys translate anything from Portuguese if you need.