Mindelact

Mindelact is a Cabo Verdean theater association based in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cabo Verde. Each year, it organizes the Mindelact Theater Festival (Mindelact - Festival Internacional de Teatro do Mindelo)

The association was founded in 1996 by Elisângelo Ramos and Portuguese-Cabo Verdean actor and director João Branco, and today produces the country's most important theater festival. Several plays were performed with the Grupo de Teatro do Centro Cultural Português do Mindelo, founded in 1993, two years before the foundation of Mindelact.

In 2001, the association celebrated its 5th anniversary of its foundation and in 2006, its 10th anniversary.

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 * João Branco, 1996-2013

Mindelact - Mindelo International Theatre Festival
Its first edition was held in 1995. The festival today is considered one of the most important events in African theater. As of 2023, 29 editions of the festival have been carried out.

One of the plays performed in one of the early editions were Cuscujada by Sergio Frusoni.


 * I (1st) - 1995 - First edition
 * XIX (19th) - 2013: 50th performance of The Tempest (Tempestade, ALUPEK: Tempestadi)
 * XX (20th) - 2014: Appearances: Mel Gambôa

Plays performed by the GTCCPM
Several plays were performed before Mindelact was founded in 1996. Some of the plays are world renowned and some of them are Capeverdean. One of the actors and performers included João Branco.


 * 1991: Quem me dera ser Onda, novel by Mário Rui - GTCCP
 * 1993: Fome de 47 - unknown author
 * 1993: A Estátua e Etc. - collective text
 * 1994: Our Fisherman (Nos Pescadores) - collective text
 * 1994: Chico - collective text
 * 1995: Gin Tonic Surrealist - partly by Mário Henrique Leiria
 * 1996: Adaptation of a book by Oscar Wilde
 * 1997 and 2007: A play, an adaptation of a book by Garcia Lorca
 * 1998: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
 * 1999: Os dois irmãos, adaptation of a novel by Germano Almeida
 * 1999: Figa Canhota, collective text
 * 1999: Catchupa, collective text
 * 2000: Agravos de um Artista, adaptation of a short story by Germano Almeida
 * 2001: Count of Abranhos, adaption of a book by Eça de Queirós
 * 2002: Salon by Mário Lúcio Sousa
 * 2003: King Lear by William Shakespeare, co-produced with Atelier Teatrakácia
 * 2004: Tertúlia, based on the poems
 * 2005: High Seas - a poem by Mrozek and Eugénio Tavares
 * 2006: "Women of Lajinha" ("Mulheres na Lajinha"), a part of the novel O mar na Lajinha by Germano Almeida
 * 2007: A Caderneta, by Baltasar Lopes da Silva
 * 2009: The Fire (No Inferno), based on a book by Arménio Vieira
 * 2009: O Jardim do Dr. Gordner Brickers, by Caplan Neves
 * 2012: Stand Up Comedy Pará Moss, collective texts with Trupe Pará (Pará Troop)
 * 2012: Theory of Silence (Teorema do Silêncio) by Caplan Neves
 * 2012: As Mindelenses (The Mindelians, sometimes as Gramportians) - collective texts with Trupe Pará (Pará Troop)
 * 2013: Sete Pequenas Peça, Para Sete Grandes Crises - collective text with Trupe Pará (Pará Troop)
 * 2013: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
 * 2016 - Strangers by José Luis Peixoto'', co-produced with Teatro Rivoli in Porto, Portugal