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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The opening show of the season of TNDMII is a dark, desolated Lear. What the spots of light are capable of tearing, whilst scheming the geometry of the events, is a depiction of life without the accessory. The fragmented illumination of tragedy.A man is nothing...
The opening show of the season...
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The ninth edition of the Materiais Diversos Festival will open its line-up at September 14, with Transações/Transformações [Transactions/Transformations] as the leitmotif. In this sense, the festival tries to explore the relationship and exchanges “between artists and public, stage and crowd”, while questioning the cultural territory...
The ninth edition of the Mater...
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