Teatro Luiz Mendonça

Presentation/Mini-bio:

Located at the shore of Boa Viagem, one of Recife’s landmarks, the Luiz Mendonça Theater is part of Dona Lindu Park, projected with the strictness and elegance of Oscar Niemeyer’s lines.

Innovative, the structure has a reversible stage that can be directed to the indoors area of the theater or to the outdoors of the park. The theater has 587 audience chairs, six chairs for low mobility people and 10 wheelchair areas. In outdoor events over 3 thousand people can watch the event.

Besides that, the apparel has two sound cabins, four large dressing rooms - two individual and two collective - all of them with bathrooms, besides a room for vocal and body warm-up, lightning console with 1.800 channels and 60 ellipsoidal reflectors and soundboard with 48 channels.

Besides the theater Dona Lindu Park has many entertainment options for the whole family. It has an art gallery, two parks for kids, skate lane, court, playground, running lane and gymnastics apparel.

Address: Boa Viagem Av. Boa Viagem

The theater name is a homage paid for a man who dedicated his whole life to the theater. Born in Pernambuco on July 5th, 1931, at Brejo da Madre de Deus, a village known for having the largest opened theater in Brazil: Nova Jerusalém. Luiz is from the Mendonça family, founder of the theater, and he acted at the Paixão de Cristo for many years, having played Jesus from 1952 to 1968.

Luiz Mendonça knew many famous thinkers from Pernambuco, such as Germano Coelho, Miguel Arraes, Paulo Freire, Ariano Suassuna and Francisco Brennand. It was amidst them that Luiz took part in the building of the Movement of Popular Culture of Recife, which arose with the intent of giving voice to the poor and marginalized people.

Created in the 60’s, MPC was the stage to 368 plas coordinated by Luiz Mendonça until the ominous April 1st, 1964, when the Military Regime was stated in Brazil and the MPC headquarters was taken by the military.

About its work:

• Las tribulaciones de Virginia - Hnos. Oligor (Barcelona/Spain)
• Materia prima e El Sur de Europa - Días de amor difíciles - La Tristura (Madrid/Spain)
• Ano Novo Chinês – Festa da Primavera (Beijing/China)
• Automatárium - David Berga e & Laitrum (Spain)
• L´Immédiat- Camille Boitel (France)
• Joana d´arppo - Gardi Hutter (Switzerland)
• Carrousel des Moutons - D´Irque & Fien (Belgium)
• Oktobre - Cia Oktobre (France) • La Wagner – Pablo Rotemberg (Argentina)