MARIA DE VASCONCELOS 

THE MONKEY is a play that makes us smile but also ponder our human condition. It is a comic yet tragic account of the incredible “evolutionary process” of an ape that is forced to live in the human world and has now become human.
Trapped inside a small cage, the ape soon realizes that to find a way out and survive, she has to join the human race. Franz Kafka wrote "A Report to an Academy" in 1917 and it remains amazingly fresh, full of humour, poetry and depth. THE MONKEY is a realistic portrayal of today’s world and state of Humanity.

A play with Maria de Vasconcelos, directed by John Mowat.

It is a humorous account of a monkey that is captured in Africa after being shot twice and then wakes up inside a cage on the deck of a steamship. In desperation and needing to find a way out and escape, she finds she has no choice but to imitate the strangers around her and become a human being… which is her way out.














      “I choose the way of Humanity. I had no other way, assuming that freedom was not to be my choice.”  - THE MONKEY




ARTISTIC TEAM
With Maria de Vasconcelos
Directed by John Mowat

Original Music: Pere Cabaret
Light Design: Jochen Pasternacki
Choreographic Assistant: Ruy Malheiro and
Pere Cabaret
Costume: Roseane Rocha
Poster: Luís Covas
Photos: Roger Rossell and Tânia Araújo (MEF)
With the support of Inimpetus – Actors School
My thanks to Anaísa Raquel, Andreya Silva,
Aurora Morais, Carole Garton, Montse Bonet,
Paulo Ferro, Pedro Barão and Sergio Fernandes


THE MONKEY TOUR 
CANTABRIA, 2016, Festival "Mujeres que contan"
BERLIN, 2015 at Acker Stadt Palast
LISBON, July 2014, at Teatro da Malaposta
BARCELONA, March  2014,
at Mercat Vell de Mollet del Vallès
BERLIM, January 2014, at Acker Stadt Palast
BARCELONA, November 2013, at Sala Fènix
LISBON, June 2013, at Inimpetus


Inside this cage I would inevitably have died a
miserable death. But according to Hagenbäck,
the place for apes was in a small cage—well,
that meant I had to stop being an ape.
 THE MONKEY