Description
Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Baltazar. Once? No, twice. Twice upon a time, there was Baltazar, a mute but not deaf little boy, growing in a lost region of a “small, sad country”, surrounded by silence on all sides. That country’s name is Portugal, and the region could be anywhere in that country, where once “poverty was the norm”. More than a decade since its first performances at the Teatro São João, in the midst of the Carnation Revolution’s 50th anniversary, Dura Dita Dura is more crucial than ever. In this puppet show for all ages, written by Regina Guimarães and staged by Igor Gandra, we are led back to the oppressive atmosphere that for half a century stifled a country where the walls had ears and there was no “lenience for the sin of disobedience”. As for the little boy, he “never opened his mouth to complain”. However, no tale ever ends as it begins, and now the time for Baltazar to speak up again has come. We are all ears.
Credits
text Regina Guimarães
direction, set design, puppets and performed by Igor Gandra music Michael Nick fado/song Ana Deus lighting design Rui Maia, Teatro de Ferro Portuguese Sign Language Cláudia Braga assembly direction Eduardo Mendes, Mariana Figueroa
co-produced by Teatro de Ferro, Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto, Festival Escrita na Paisagem, Festival Internacional de Marionetas e Formas Animadas de Lisboa
opening 13 Oct 2009 Museu da Marioneta (Lisboa)
playing time 48’ Ages 6 and up
Portuguese Sign Language | 16 Oct 15:00 English subtitles | 17 Oct 19:00
Sessions
Teatro Carlos Alberto
· qua · 10:00 | Buy | |
· qua · 14:00 | Buy | |
· qui · 14:00 | Buy | |
· qui · 18:00 | Buy |