About

We are familiar with the irreverence of João Garcia Miguel's stage creations. There are, for instance, his bold treatments of Shakespeare in Burgher King Lear (2007) or Calderón de la Barca in La Vida Es Sonho (2015). Now, he returns with A Plan of the Labyrinth, adapting a text written by Francisco Luís Parreira (in what is already the fourth joint creation by their “close and durable relationship”), to whom the reverberation of the historical situations or the old texts he chooses acts as a revelation of what we are today – he is responsible for an amazing Portuguese translation of the Babylonian poem The Epic by Gilgamesh, one of the oldest texts in the world. After Lilith, which looked at the crisis in Greece / Europe, Três Parábolas de Possessão, filled with biblical references and the Israeli-Arab conflict, and a free version of Medea, Um Plano do Labirinto is a polyphonic mythological tale about the twentieth century Portuguese diaspora, in the Orient and in Africa, questioning itself/us about the truth and lies of many collected stories in “our” war “overseas”. One of them, quite remarkable in its "indifference to the truth," tells of an immaterial confrontation between soldiers in patrol and a herd of antelopes in the unexplored savannah. “Why do these stories lie so deliberately?”

When

Thursday-Friday: 9pm;
Wednesday and Saturday: 7pm;
Sunday: 4pm

Gallery

Location

Location

Carlos Alberto Theatre - TECA

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