We’ve already reported that actor Michel Melamed is a huge success with his performance on 17th Street and 10th Avenue, in front of a little playhouse at High Line Park in New York. The show, called "SEEWATCHLOOK," invites the viewer to interact with unusual and provocative situations, such as a man who seems to have literally dropped by parachute into the city.
* Glamurama spoke with the actor, who said this is his sixth consecutive year in the city, studying and working. This time, he came with a Funarte scholarship. While waiting to be on a play in Brazil, he couldn’t sit still and began articulating this project with people he knew here, together with his wife, Bruna Lizenmeyer. And is Melamed looking for? "The show invites people to create subjectivities. The viewer is the one who makes it special. It depends on how you look at things", wonders the actor.
* The performance raises doubts in the viewers. Since it’s done on the street, amid pedestrians, they’re left wondering if this is part of the scene or not. "The rehearsed scenes are a small part of the show. Every session someone comes to tell me there was a scene that didn’t belong, but that day, at that session, it did," he says.
* The show is on display for another weekend, on Saturday and Sunday until October 30, starting at 6 p.m. Then Michel Melamed will come back to Brazil for a series of jobs. He’ll rehearse the play "Adeus à Carne", scheduled to debut in February in Rio, edit a documentary for Canal Brazil, about his experiences in New York, and then he’ll go into the studio to finish his second solo CD, "Quase-Canção" (yes, Melamed is also a musician), to be released in 2012. Is it enough for the multi- talented actor, musician, writer, producer and screenwriter? Not at all. "This is what’s immediate and urgent: the wishlist of projects is endless."
By Pedro Henrique França, from New York