Aquilo que Ouvíamos

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Joana Craveiro uses memory as raw material for the explorations with her company “Teatro do Vestido”. In “Aquilo que Ouvíamos” (Stuff We Used to Listen To), she revisits a time when music gave its listeners a sense of identity and belonging. A concert-play based on the musical experiences of its cast-band, four actors and five musicians (among them, the Loosers), authors of the original soundtrack, it is a journey back to the formative years of adolescence in the 1980s and 1990s. In these “musical stories”, tell us how important music’s materiality: buying vinyl records with their meagre allowances, reading the lyrics printed on them, trade them and making friends while doing so, displaying a record as a badge of honour, a means to identify as part of a group and separate yourself from others, making tape recordings of borrowed vinyl records, rare concerts or improvised home radio shows, precious material evidence of who you were. “Aquilo que Ouvíamos” revives a past, “a time when we had time”, with the tenderness and ironic awareness of its being lost, and yet present in the bonds that were created through music and still endure.