Table (Mesa): noun, feminine, singular and concrete. Is it?
A table is much more than that. It’s the place of an infinity of actions, individual or collective. At the table it’s written, eaten, talked about, drawn, operated, constructed, celebrated, voted and essayed.
There are table of various materials, sizes and shapes, but what most makes this object vary is the way as each one relates to it. There’s nothing right or wrong, just different ways of looking. A table is a table, but it can always be something else!
Having, as a starting point, the book Uma mesa é uma mesa. Será?, from Planeta Tangerina, and the researches made in a school context, this show aims to explore this object not only in its utilitarian dimension, but also in its symbolic and affective dimensions.
Through the course of the show, two characters use the table to travel between past, present and future, invoking the places from imagination and memory.
Staging Catarina Requeijo
Text Catarina Requeijo
With excerpts by José Eduardo Agualusa, Patrick Süskind and Lewis Carroll
Interpretation Ana Valente and Victor Yovani
Scenography and costumes Maria João Castelo
Lighting design Vasco Ferreira
Research in a school context in the area of Dramatic Expression Catarina Requeijo and Manuela Pedroso
Research in a school context in the area of Philosophy Rita Pedro
Coproduction Comédias do Minho, Materiais Diversos and LU.CA
© Carolina Lapa
