Le Conte des contes

Omar Porras grew up in Colombia. He moved to Paris aged twenty, in 1984. For two years he spent time at the Cartoucherie de Vincennes, working with Ariane Mnouchkine and Peter Brook, and then briefly at the École de Jacques Lecoq, where he collaborated with Ryszard Cieslak, before meeting Jerzy Grotowski, which led to him to explore Asian forms such as Topeng, Kathakali and Kabuki. When he arrived in Geneva in 1990, he founded Teatro Malandro, a theatre company committed to creation, training, and research. His directing repertoire includes classics such as Marlowe’s Faust, Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet, Euripides’s The Bacchae, Ay! QuiXote by Cervantes, El Don Juan by Tirso de Molina, Pedro et le commandeur [Peribáñez y el Comendador de Ocaña] by Lope de Vega, Les Fourberies de Scapin [Scapin the Schemer], Cupid and Psyche, as well as modern and contemporary texts with La Visite de la vieille dame [The Visit of the Old Lady] by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, Striptease by Slawomir Mrozek, Noces de sang [Blood Wedding] by Garcia Lorca, Histoire du soldat [The Soldier’s Tale] by Ramuz, Maître Puntila et son valet Matti [Mr Puntila and his Man Matti] by Bertolt Brecht, Bolivar : fragments d’un rêve [Simon Bolivar, Fragments of A Dream] by William Ospina, L’Éveil du printemps [Spring Awakening] by Frank Wedekind, La Dame de la mer [The Lady from the Sea] by Ibsen, Ma Colombine by Fabrice Melquiot and Carmen, l’audition. Alongside theatre, he has explored the world of opera with Donizetti’s L’Elixir d’amour (2006), Paisiello’s Le Barbier de Séville [The Barber of Seville] (2007), Mozart’s La Flûte enchantée [The Magic Flute] (2007), Offenbach’s La Périchole (2008) and La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein (2012), and Sebastián Durón’s Coronis (2019), but he has also ventured into dance with Les Cabots, a choreographic work by Guilherme Botelho of Cie Alias (2012). Since July 2015, he has directed the TKM Théâtre Kléber-Méleau in Renens.