Description
Times have changed, and now is perhaps time for the theatre to use its artifices to take us to a future time that can better explain the present time. It was this allegorical approach that Tiago Rodrigues adopted as the new premise of his play, Catarina e a Beleza de Matar Fascistas [Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists]. A family gets together in a house near the village of Baleizão to uphold their annual tradition: the kidnapping and killing of fascists. Now is the turn of Catarina, one of the family’s youngest members. It is a day of celebration, beauty and death. But Catarina is incapable of killing and a dispute begins, while the ghost of another Catarina, with the surname Eufémia, looms. What is a fascist? Is there room for violence in the struggle for a better world? Is it acceptable to break the rules of democracy in order to better defend it? Like a dystopian poem, the show moves away from reality to bring us closer to it, engaging in a poetic negotiation with popular culture. Thus the theatre becomes a means for our collective projection onto the future we must build.
Credits
written and directed by Tiago Rodrigues
set design F. Ribeiro costumes José António Tenente lighting design Nuno Meira sound design and original music Pedro Costa voice and elocution João Henriques voice-over Cláudio Castro, Nadezhda Bocharova, Paula Mora, Pedro Moldão movement support Sofia Dias, Vítor Roriz stage fight and weapons support David Chan Cordeiro direction assistance Margarida Bak Gordon artistic collaboration Magda Bizarro executive production Rita Forjaz, Pedro Pestana
cast António Fonseca, Beatriz Maia, Carolina Passos Sousa, Isabel Abreu, Marco Mendonça, Pedro Gil, Romeu Costa, Rui M. Silva
produced by Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
co-produced by Wiener Festwochen, Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, ThéâtredelaCité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie & Théâtre Garonne Scène Européenne Toulouse, Festival d’Automne à Paris & Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale, Comédie de Caen, Théâtre de Liège, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, BIT Teatergarasjen, Le Trident – Scène Nationale de Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Teatre Lliure, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, O Espaço do Tempo
opening 18 Sep 2020 Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães)
playing time 2:30 Ages 16 and up
Programme organized under the Portugal-France 2022 Season
English subtitles
Audio Description | 3 jul Post-show talk | 1 jul