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The Seagull
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Hamlet
Zero
Tears
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José Carlos Serroni is architect,
stage and costume designer for the theatre, TV settings
and shows. He was graduated in architecture at University
of São Paulo (FAU-USP), having concluded his course with
an interdisciplinary thesis on Scenography and Theatre
Architecture, in 1976. From 1976 to 1982 he was a set and
costume designer, and coordinated the Department of Art
and Set Design at a public television station in São
Paulo. As a free lancer he designed sets and costumes for
Globo TV Network and MTV Brazil. From 1985 to 1990 he
carried out several projects in stage design all over
Brazil as a consultant. Since 1989 Serroni has set up his
studio for theatrical architecture, in building and
remodeling projects, also acting as an independent
consultant. His studio is also specialized in
scenography, stagecraft and stage lighting. In June 1992
he coordinated the First International Meeting for
Theatrical Architecture, in Rio de Janeiro, for the
project Rescue and Development of Scenical Techniques
promoted by the O.E.A. (Organization for the American
States). Serroni has participated at the Prague
Quadrennial for contemporary Stage and Costume Design and
Theatrical Architecture, in Prague, Czech Republic, in
1987, 1991 and 1995. In 1987 he was the Brazilian General
Commissioner in the exhibition, and received one of the 5
honorary awards by the international jury. In 1995 he
received the most important award in the exposition: the
'Golden Triga', given by an important international jury.
Serroni was a guest participant at the XX and XXI
International Bienal of São Paulo, in the section for
special events, with an exhibition of set and costumes
designs. He has participated in several international
theatre festivals with the 'Grupo Macunaíma' (Macunaíma
Company) stagings, - he is its set and costume designer
since 1987. Among the most important events we should
mention: Japan's Toga Festival; Seoul's Theatre Festival
during the 1988 Olympic games; Festival Cervantino, in
Mexico and in Cadis, Spain; Summer Festival of New York;
Summer Festival in Germany; the Caracas Festival; Hong
Kong Festival. He has received several prizes in set and
costume design along his career - the MAMBEMBE, APCA,
GOVERNADOR DO ESTADO, APETESP - and for four times the
MOLIÈRE, which is the most significant theatre award in
Brazil. Since 1987 he has been coordinating the set and
costume design department at CPT - SESC (Center for
Theatrical Research), directed by Antunes Filho. This
department has been holding annual courses on scenography
and costume design, and produces all the sets, props and
costumes for the CPT productions. The centre has held
several exhibits and courses and workshops on stage
design, costumes and props, all over Brazil. Serroni has
been working as a designer for several theatre
productions since 1974. Among them are: Shakespeare's A
Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth and Hamlet; An Adult Orgasm
Escapes from the Zoo, by Dario Fó; Beckett's Katastrophé
and Oh! Happy Days; Molière's Tartuffe;
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman; Bernard
Shaw's Saint Joan; Plínio Marcos' Madame
Blavatsky, Nelson 2 Rodrigues and Paradise
North Side, from plays by Nelson Rodrigues;
Bivar/Paulini's The Coffee Trade Foxes; Loyola Brandão's
Zero; A. Dumas' Kean
adapted by J.P.Sartre; Path of Salvation by Jorge Andrade; New
Old Story, Gilgamesh and Dracula
and Other Vampires by Antunes Filho.
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