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When a life is so filled with stories of personal overtakes of itself, a Portuguese would say this lady\u2019s life is packed like an egg.<\/p>\n
Solicitous and diligent, tender and rough, skinny and strong, smart and emotional, Irene is surely one of the best from the Lagarteiro tribe and a queen of spades and hearts in Miss\u2019Opo\u2019s team since the beginning.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s responsible for keeping clean the 900 square meters of our building in a daily basis. No one knows the building better than she does.<\/p>\n
For the Concrete Observer, that\u2019s enough to call her heroin due the countless times she comes to rescue and help us in the most simple incidents or actions of our jobs.<\/p>\n
We met for a coffee, this time not at the counter of M\u2019O bar as we usually do, for a break in between guests welcoming and preparations. We found ourselves on a rooftop to see Porto from above and she overflew her other side of existence.<\/p>\n
Circumstances led her to deal with high society at an early age, she went to a boarding school and later to Aur\u00e9lia de Sousa, a public high school. She saw the Carnation Revolution and Virg\u00ednia Moura getting out of prison. She was a worker in a textile manufacturing factory, secretary, cook, she owned a butcher shop and a cafe.<\/p>\n
She has a very sensitive scale for justice. No man nor woman should diminish or disrespect another human being. Injustice is what makes Irene snap and she doesn\u2019t seem to step on others. She wants to serve, not to be a servant and that\u2019s an universal truth she applies to everyone around her.<\/p>\n
Irene became an actress six years ago through an association called Pele which lively works in her community, a social neighbourhood which faces labels correlated to poverty and block people to go further even if they aim to.<\/p>\n
Her kind of theatre is the oppressed one, a method created by Augusto Boal, a brasilian guy who, in the sixties, was concerned about political and social changes and saw playing roles and extending participation to the \u201cspect-actors\u201d a way to promote awareness. Stories don\u2019t come up from books, rather from life conflicts. Interaction is mandatory.<\/p>\n
Irene shows a very deep love and pride for this activity. She claims she\u2019s not a jar to put a label on and she feels she slaps with a glove those big bosses who bully around, or simply ignore, people who have the wrong address.<\/p>\n
The Lagarteiro is one of these neighbourhoods and her latest home, although she has lived in several other locations in Porto. In this oriental part of town, simple things lack, like the bus 400 that make life hard to get to work or to get back home. She takes more time to get downtown, if the bus decides to show up, than you to get from Porto to Aveiro by train.<\/p>\n
Irene has the hands of the resistance and with Theater of the Opressed she is one of the stars who try to bring back the immaterial heritage of Invicta\u2019s people, the one that is nationally known for taking care of others and give the best to someone in need.<\/p>\n
Next 31st October, you may see her acting with other resistants from Vit\u00f3ria and Lordelo tribes at S. Bento da Vit\u00f3ria Monastery, 5 minutes away and walking from Miss\u2019Opo. If you miss this performance, try to get back to Portugal in 2015 (we\u2019ll be out of crisis and everything LOL) to see her at Casa da M\u00fasica on June the 3rd or at Teatro D. Maria II, in Lisbon on the 6th.<\/p>\n
At Miss\u2019Opo, the more invisible she is, the better her job is done.<\/p>\n
On stage, I hope she gets so bright we start to feel her golden heart dripping over us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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