The Teatro Experimental Theater of Cascais (TEC) has suspended until the end of the month the latest production of Carlos Aviles’ Electra, which premiered on Saturday at the Estoril Academy of Arts, the company announced this Thursday on the social network Instagram.
Following the death of Carlos Aviles on Wednesday, the coordination of the TEC “after careful consideration, decided to suspend meetings this week to resume on November 30,” the company founded by the director said in a statement on its official page. on this social network.
“It is time to reflect and allow the entire team, the people involved and all theater lovers to cope with this loss,” the message from the TEC coordinator added, deploring the “inconvenience caused” by the poster’s suspension.
The company said Electra will return on the last day of the month “with greater strength and a desire to leave a legacy” that made Carlos Aviles proud.
Director Carlos Aviles died on Wednesday in a Cascais hospital at the age of 88.
Carlos Vitor Machado, known as Carlos Aviles, was born in 1935 and made his debut as an actor in 1956 in Companhia Amélia Rey Colaço – Robles Monteiro, where he remained until 1963.
Two years later, in 1965, he founded the Experimental Theater of Cascais, which he has directed ever since.
Last Saturday saw the premiere of his latest production, Elektra, from North American writer Eugene O’Neill’s Elektra and the Phantoms trilogy.