This show focuses on the process/drama of artistic creation as a terrain for the search for identity; letters, voices, multiple bodies, distinct in the forms of Caeiro, Campos and Reis, seek to affirm their originality and their difference, but, as we know, their entire meaning comes together in the complex and unnameable universe of a single, fragmented Pessoa.

In body-present, on stage, will it be possible to rescue these dazzling sparks of lucidity and creation, timeless nourishment? We hope so.

A permanent whisper of pain, longing, a struggle that does not cease, which imposes itself on us in a constant vibration of the voices and bodies of three actors who give themselves without resignation, transcending the boundaries of the throat, of expectations, of themselves.

In this process, we were incorruptible birds, we created our own ritual, and each new morning is still a constant discovery in our ‘Karinagana ua Karingana’, this ‘Once Upon a Time’ that we want everyone to feel in their own way of living. Theatre within theatre, theatre that is life, but which never ceases to be a game, a show that does not pretend to be more than it is. Craveirinha wanted to be Tambor… and so did we.

The historical melodrama, comedy and bourgeois melodrama in which Justiça is set fully reflect the author’s ethical and philosophical concerns, his way of looking at the world and the country, customs and the surrounding reality. In Justiça, we have a peculiar view of society and customs. On the one hand, the utopia of a society that should be driven by honour and work, the apology of the self-made man who, having risen from poverty, will conquer his space with probity. On the opposite side, the men of marble, hardened hearts, worshippers of the golden calf in a society where man was a wolf to man. From one angle, the social and tribunician turmoil mirrored the aspirations of a class fighting against the impoverished and decadent aristocracy, living off the rusty glory of their coats of arms. From the other, the fight against the ruthless mercantilism of speculative capital that sought to impose on this same bourgeoisie an ethical model that would dignify it.

Based on the personal and family history of the show’s co-creator, Vahan Kerovpyan and Ana Madureira present a fiction made up of unusual coincidences that bring together distant realities. Oriental microtones, Western semitones, half-words and characters without socks invite us to take care of the tones we have within us and to know how to see and hear those of others.

School sessions Thursday, 9 October, at 2.30 p.m. and Friday, 10 October, at 10.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m.
Free upon registration at participacao@theatrocirco.com

The Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fish is perhaps the best-known work by Father António Vieira, having been preached in São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil, on 13 June 1654, which would become Saint Anthony’s Day in the liturgical calendar.

This project focuses mainly on the Exordium – Chapter 1 of the Sermon, articulated with contemporary texts, maintaining the allegory used by António Vieira and his satirical tone, with the aim of addressing the themes of the 17th-century text that are still present in various spheres of society in the political, economic and social spheres: corruption and abuse of power. These are increasingly relevant and timeless themes.

Based on research into seaside tourism and its seasonal experience in a coastal area, Ana Baptista guides us through a humorous and provocative work of autofiction. The show, divided into two parts, invites reflection on the hesitation between right and wrong, confronting the tourist perception with the true identity of places.

In the first part, the audience participates in a tour through the history of tourism in Portugal, from the turn of the 20th century to the present day, questioning its economic, social and cultural consequences through memorabilia. This is followed by a more intimate view of the creator, who questions the future of her grandparents’ house on a dune in Apúlia. Ana Baptista gives voice to local inhabitants, exposing moral dilemmas and family stories, while climate change becomes inseparable from the theme of the seaside. A show that culminates in a pressing question: are we facing coastal erosion or the erosion of biography?

Session for schools is on the same day at 3 pm: Free upon registration at participacao@theatrocirco.com