Brazilian actor will star in The Trial: Enemy of the People, which examines modern political and environmental conflicts
The award-winning Brazilian actor Wagner Moura is to star in a new play being staged at three European festivals next year, in the first joint production since their foundation two years after the second world war.
Moura, who is being tipped for an Oscar nomination for the Secret Agent, will take the lead role in a new production updating the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People to examine modern political and environmental conflicts.
The play is being co-funded by the Edinburgh international festival (EIF), the Festival d’Avignon in France and the Amsterdam-based Holland festival, which were all founded in 1947 in an effort to rebuild European art after the war.
Officials from the three festivals said there were powerful echoes today with that period, with Europe again struggling with war, the far right and economic crises. That made their collaboration, which will continue for three years, all the more timely, they said.
