"The child, when a child, asked questions like these:Why am I myself and not you?Why am I here and not there?When did time start and where does space end?Is life under the sun not just a dream?Is this not just the appearance of a world...
"The child, when a child, aske...
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Teatro do Mar [Theatre of the Sea] – a name that mirrors its own condition.And its origin as well.It was born in Sines.By the sea that forces us to embrace the horizon. The immensity. The distance.It grew in Sines.In a land as violent as the waves,welcoming and capturing...
Teatro do Mar [Theatre of the ...
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The habit and the standard force us to wait until the theatre’s doors are open, at the beginning of each show, so that we can sit in the audience to look at the stage. It tends to be a two-dimensional path and a unilateral perspective....
The habit and the standard for...
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The choice is important right from the beginning. Even when, because it is banal and inconsequential, we fail to realize that. Picking the queue on the right or the left to enter the “free room” of Teatro Nacional D. Maria II would mean, even before the start...
The choice is important righ...
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We all have that place where the absence of light allows us to see the stars, the absence of noise allow us to listen to the wind surrounding the crops - or the “deeper silence when the crickets hesitate,” as Cohen says –, where the absence of what is...
We all have that place where t...
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The bell marks the beginning and end of each day. Despite being buried up to her waist, and then to her neck, every morning Winnie wakes up fascinated by the brand-new day – “hello, blessed light!”. The objects of everyday life (and not only) stored in the bag, that...
The bell marks the beginning a...
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The only words heard in Ensaio para uma Cartografia are the words recorded from Leonard Bernstein rehearsing the Ravel's Bolero – “if you're going to be a musician, you must really want to be a musician. Because this is only the beginning and it is a...
The only words heard in Ensai...
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In O Deus da Carnificina [God of Carnage], the actors could be trapped in any room, akin to the Big Brother phenomenon translated into those horror flicks in which we expectantly wait to know who is going to be the last survivor of the “house”, or when the cannibalism...
In O Deus da Carnificina [God...
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The stage could be a battlefield, the congress centre of a world summit, a business meeting room, the email inbox from an international organization, the floor of a family kitchen or the bed shared by a couple.Stepping on it a man - several men and...
The stage could be a battlefie...
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Raquel André is a Portuguese artist with training in theatre. Currently she also declares herself a collector of lovers and collectors. The activity of collector has always been latent in the artist’s work from early on, but it was during a long stay in Brazil...
Raquel André is a Portuguese ...
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