Primavera Selvagem, a performance with staging and scenography by Jorge Pinto, will be TNSJ’s (Teatro Nacional de São João’s) in Porto, last premiere this season, and will be on stage from 18th to 28th July. The show outstands the reunion of the Ensemble with the prolific English dramatist Arnold Wesker, after love letters on blue paper (2005) and When God wanted a son (2006), staged by Emilia Silvestre and Carlos Pimenta, respectively. As a multifaceted author (having also written other literary styles), Wesker was, together with John Osborne, Harold Pinter and John Arden, part of a line of playwrights who, at the end of 1950’s and along the decade of 1960, changed the face of British theatre. Arnold Wesker was a pioneer in the way he dramatized the world of work, giving voice to the political and social disenchantment of a time which is still ours. In Wild Spring, a domestic place from 1992, the work of acting is explored as a metaphor of the personae we build of ourselves, these false images that we fell in love with, and that way it makes us reflect on life as a self-staging exercise.
