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Dende Collective produces works in the UK which promote and develop Anglo-Brazilian collaborations, diversity and integration alongside educational programs aimed at enhancing and encouraging community and young people involvement with live theatre.

Dende Collective has been producing shows with a strong Brazilian flavour, which include productions of Brazilian classics such as Two Lost Souls on a Dirty Night by Plinio Marcos and new plays like Viva Maria! by Mark O’Thomas, which explores how Europe and Latin America see each other.

More recently, Dende Collective has been devising work exploring Brazilian writers such as Jorge Amado and Murilo Rubiao and young playwrights like Newton Moreno.

Dende Collective is very proud of its plays with young people and their extensive Educational work.

MACUNAÍMA

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Since July 2006 we have been developing our Macunaíma cycle through a series of workshops and various months of intensive research in different fields and with different collaborators. Our aim is to investigate how to adapt this iconic Brazilian Modernist novel from the 1920s to a contemporary context involving different artists, institutions and artforms, and how to feed directly from our educational work into our artistic process.

For for information go to our MACUNAIMA page in plays

To book tickets through the LYRIC website click here

Dende Collective and Macunaíma are kindly supported by

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Works in Development

KWAIDAN - Winter Ghost Stories

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First performed as part of The Oval House's FiRST BiTES on 15 December 2006

Snow falls gently on a land of eerie possibilities and ghostly memories.

Kaidan is a Japanese word where kai means a “strange and mysterious apparition" and dan means “story” or "folk tale".

Based on some of the Japanese ghost stories compiled in the book KWAIDAN - Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hern, Dende Collective is creating a world where dark forces and evil spirits interact with humans changing their destinies forever.

This show is in the pipeline and Dende would love to develop it further in 2009 using its trademark mix of styles (masks, puppets and physical theatre).

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