The Island of Dr. Moreau (2004)
The Island of Dr. Moreau was produced during the Ongoing Creation and Production Process carried out from August to December by Sesc SP Ribeirão Preto. During this period there were lectures, workshops, and open rehearsals with public debates so that the creation of the show
be nourished by the most varied opinions.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Cast:
André Cruz, Marcelo Góes, Lara Cordula, Tania Alonso, Luis de Toledo,
Miriam Fontana and Murilo Ferreira
Technical team:
Dramaturgy:
Amir Abdala
Costumes:
Dino Bernardi
Soundtrack:
Raul Teixeira
Light Design:
Ari Buccioni
Scenography and Masks:
Jair Correia
Stage Handlers:
Luiz Fernando
Dressmaker:
Maria Luzia da Costa and Inês Alonso
Workshop Assistant:
Gustavo Andrade
Locksmith:
Olivio Cantarelli
Production/SP:
Alexandre Brazil
Executive production:
Jair Correia and Miriam Fontana
Script, Conception, and Direction:
Dino Bernardi
The world is watching, more and more, social transformations, and visualizing a future loaded with doubts. We have already witnessed several moments that required judgment from us. It was like this with the contraceptive pill, with the test-tube baby, now with cloning, and with so many other questions that transform humanity.
We are currently witnessing a series of discussions regarding the manipulation of living beings, from plants to human beings, including some sheep. Stem cells, cloning, transgenics, genome, and DNA are the doubts loaded in our conscience today. People of all ages, all genders, colors, nationalities,
ethnicities and creeds ask: who we are, what can we do?
Faced with these doubts, the group Fora do sériO sought inspiration in the scientific anticipation soap opera “The Island of Dr. Moreau” by Herbert George Wells.
Written at the end of the 19th century, the work shows the scientist Dr. Moreau and his intention to create the perfect human being, free from any violent manifestation. For this, the scientist interferes with animals, and as a result of his brutal experiments, he creates deformed mutant beings, half animals, half men who live under his tyranny,
coerced by pain and laws that run counter to natural origins.
The show “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, from the group Fora do sériO, inspired by the work of HG Wells, recovers speculative fiction in the face of the current reality of scientific development, which announces the power of “creation” of the perfect human being, and makes a reflection about it. The future and new reality that will certainly exist, with unpredictable and transforming consequences of human life, cannot be visualized in its fullness,
but it can be discussed in essence.