1 9 6 9 - Antonio Bivar's 'O cão siamês'

Antonio Bivar & Agnaldo Timóteo in the mid-1970s.

6 August 1969 - Yolanda Cardoso & Antonio Fagundes in 'O cão siamês' which opened on a Wednesday at Teatro do Meio, one of the many spaces at Teatro Ruth Escobar, on Rua dos Inglêses, 209.

6 August 1969 - Antonio Bivar's 'O cão siamês' is hailed as a big event by daily 'O Estado de S.Paulo'.

3rd August 1969 - Sunday - This is what one would see at various theatres through the city at that time.

6 August 1969 - This is page 7 of newspaper 'O Estado de S.Paulo' on the same day 'Cão siamês' opened at Ruth Escobar's Teatro do Meio. It gives a taste of the 'zeitgeist' of the period. It's no wonder it's been called the 'lead years' (anos-de-chumbo). 

Yolanda Cardoso & Antonio Fagundes in 'O cão siamês' which would be re-written by Antonio Bivar during his stay in New York City in 1971, and be called 'Alzira Power'.

Yolanda Cardoso was born on 28 September 1928, in Rio de Janeiro and died on 10 July 2007. 

Antonio da Silva Fagundes Filho was born on on 18 April 1949, in Rio de Janeiro although his family moved out to São Paulo in 1957, when he was 8 years old.

José Dionísio Marcello Salles Picchi, was born on 8 October 1948, in São Carlos-SP.   

14 September 1969 - This is what São Paulo's theatre scene looked like when 'O cão siamês' was running at Teatro do Meio.