October 20 | 19:00 – I.L. Caragiale National Theatre, Bucharest, Ion Caramitru Hall
“The play tries to do what I feel is one of theatre’s vital strengths: to propose characters who, through what they think and say and do on stage, and through the way they do it, allow us to think differently about our lives.”
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Text, direction: Tiago Rodrigues
Artistic collaboration: Magda Bizarro
With:
Isabel Abreu, Romeu Costa, António Fonseca, Beatriz Maia, Marco Mendonça, António Parra, Carolina Passos Sousa, Rui M. Silva.
Stage design: F. Ribeiro
Light: Nuno Meira
Costumes: José António Tenente
Sound design, original music: Pedro Costa
Choirmaster, vocal arrangements: João Henriques
Voice-overs: Cláudio de Castro, Nadezhda Bocharova, Paula Mora, Pedro Moldão
Choreography: Sofia Dias, Vítor Roriz
Weapon coordinator: David Chan Cordeiro
Translations: Daniel Hahn (English), Ozana Oancea (Romanian)
Surtitles: Patrícia Pimentel
Produced by: Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisboa)
Executive producer: Festival d’Avignon
Co-producers: Wiener Festwochen, Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione (Modena), Théâtre de la Cité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie & Théâtre Garonne Scène européenne Toulouse, Festival d’Automne à Paris & Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale, Comédie de Caen, Théâtre de Liège, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Le Trident – Scène nationale de Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Teatre Lliure (Barcelona), Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo).
Support: Almeida Garrett Wines, Cano Amarelo, Culturgest
Thanks to Mariana Gomes, Rui Pina Coelho, Margarida Bak Gordon, Rita Mendes and the team of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. We also thank Sara Barros Leitão and Pedro Gil who, even though they are no longer on stage with us, will always remain Catarina.
Duration: 2h 30 min (no intermission)
Age recommendation: 16+
In Portuguese with English and Romanian surtitles
This performance contains strong sounds, and it is not recommended for people with hearing sensitivity
“The play tries to do what I feel is one of theatre’s vital strengths: to propose characters who, through what they think and say and do on stage, and through the way they do it, allow us to think differently about our lives. What we had at the beginning was a family, a questioning of violence’s place in a democratic society, while faced with the threat of antidemocratic thought and action, while faced with the imminence of a dictatorship, and we wanted to raise these issues in a manner that would also challenge ourselves. So that they wouldn’t be appeasing, serving only to confirm what we believe to be our shared values – and which are probably not the values we share, we just believe we share them, and then we’re often surprised by election results and we realise that we may share those values on a more human and personal scale, but on a social scale the interpretation and manipulation of ideas and the shape of our civic involvement often separate us as citizens.” (Tiago Rodrigues)
Photo credits: Joseph Banderet
