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A civil servant is wetting his feet on a calm, quiet and deserted beach, when he is surprised by an old cadaverous beggar, toothless and smelling of alcohol, who has taken over his shoes. He tries to recover his asset with respectful cordiality, but the old woman reciprocates with an indecipherable posture, which progresses from a grumpy obstinacy to sadistic …
PEACE was written by Aristophanes and performed at the Great Dionysia in 421 BCE. This ancient comedy strongly criticizes and satirizes the Peloponnesian War between Athenians and Spartans. The play tells the story of Trygaeus of Athmonon, a Greek farmer weary of the war, who decides to fly to Mount Olympus riding a giant beetle, in order to seek an …
The unusual universe of Franz Kafka is explored in ARCANO with all its dark imagery, leading the audience to the recesses of the human mind. It is a fragmented performance, which through space, the actor, the marionette and the word, seeks a balance between reality and hallucination, organic and mechanical, metaphysics and the need to solve it. “The animal pulls …
The five senses served at the table to mark the twentieth anniversary of Teatro de Marionetas do Porto, which began with the memorable presentation of Entre a Vida e a Morte/Capuchinho Vermelho XXX (1988) in the French city of Charleville-Mézières, the puppets’ world capital. In Boca de Cena: Teatro-Jantar (theatre-dinner), the theatre “with” marionettes uncovers unsuspected affinities with gastronomy, Artaud …
When in 1843 J.O. Halliwell first published the story of “The Three Little Pigs”, he was far from imagining how the world would turn. One thing is for sure: the three little pigs and the big bad wolf have travelled through time and reached us, the inhabitants of the global village. Where are those metaphorical pigs now, how do they …
Vai no Batalha! is a typical expression of Porto and the motto for this theatrical creation, whose structure is based on the Portuguese revista: a type of popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. As for its dramaturgy structure, the revista is a kind of bag in which everything can be put. Especially ideas. It is a pity …
Did you ever notice that Little Red Riding Hood is a story in which you talk about eating all the time? This aspect of the tale seemed to be of interest to João Paulo Seara Cardoso, who presents us a tasteful performance of (perishable) object theatre. Everything starts peacefully on top of the plastic towel of a kitchen table, a …
