THEATER
Passerby, do not grieve my death because if I were living you'd be dead, it's from Robespierre's famous epitaph that comes this play's title. The passerby and Robespierre cannot be alive at the same time, and yet that is what playwrights and actors do in theatre: the playwrights die, and the actors resurrect them without dieing themselves.
Essay, experiment or investigation, Se Eu Vivesse Tu Morrias explores one of the limits of theatre: the text. Countering the idea that a theatre show happens in the present, this play highlights the non-presence, the phantasmagoria, that which takes place not in the present.
A play that does not summon the dead to life, but summons us to death, using the text as a vehicle for that journey.
Se Eu Vivesse Tu Morrias won the SPA 2017 award for best performed Portuguese Text.
Essay, experiment or investigation, Se Eu Vivesse Tu Morrias explores one of the limits of theatre: the text. Countering the idea that a theatre show happens in the present, this play highlights the non-presence, the phantasmagoria, that which takes place not in the present.
A play that does not summon the dead to life, but summons us to death, using the text as a vehicle for that journey.
Se Eu Vivesse Tu Morrias won the SPA 2017 award for best performed Portuguese Text.
Additional information
Conception Miguel Castro Caldas, Lígia Soares and Filipe Pinto Stage Direction and text Miguel Castro Caldas Creation, performance and costumes Lígia Soares, Miguel Loureiro and Tiago Barbosa Creation, Set Design, image and costumes Filipe Pinto Creation, sound, video and lighting Gonçalo Alegria Technical direction Cristovão Cunha Creation and rehearsal assistance Catarina Salomé Marques Pre-production Marta Raquel Fonseca Executive producer Vânia Faria Management and promotion [PI] Produções Independentes Co-production Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos - Culturgest and Fundação GDA
Production support Pólo Cultural das Gaivotas- CML, AND_Lab | Research on Art-Thinking & Togetherness | Máquina Agradável - Associação Cultural | Enseada Amena - Associação Cultural, Espaço do TempoSpecial Thanks Ana Matoso, António Gouveia, Bruno Humberto, Fernanda Eugénio, Marta Rema, Miguel Cardoso and Susana Gonçalves
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