Lisbon (Portugal) 21st, 22nd and 23rd of November 2025
A stage adaptation of John Berger’s novel King: A Street Story (1999) will be directed by Pedro Alves and performed by second-year students of the Acting Course at In Impetus – Escola de Atores. More info on In Impetus Fcbk or Insta.
Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.
He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.
Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.