André Guedes

Utopias

02 → 04 Feb 2017

Dates & Schedules

Thursday and Friday → 9.30pm / Saturday → 6.30pm and 9.30pm

Price

6€ to 12€

Length

45 min

Age Rating

M/12

Location

Stage of the Main Auditorium

Nova Árgea sets the members of a fictional community playing a board game and applying it to real life. Inspired by A Comunal, an agricultural cooperative created a er the revolution of 25 April 1974, which brought city people and the rural proletariat together, exchanging knowledge for the common good, André Guedes now brings to Teatro Maria Matos the stage version of an installation presented in 2012.

Creative Credits

concept and direction
André Guedes

interpretation (slideshow)
Tiago Barbosa, Antonia Buresi, Matthieu Ehrlacher, Elizabete Francisca, Vera Mantero and João Ferro Martins

voices
Sara Graça and Paula Só

music
Tiago Miranda

board game and drawings
Clara Batalha

texts (excerpts)
Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, Clara Batalha, Gaston Bardet, André Guedes, articles about the coop A Comunal of the newspaper A Gazeta da Semana (1976) and from the magazine Século Ilustrado (1975)

photographs
André Carvalho, André Guedes, Tugba Karop

production of the original version
Les Laboratoires de Rennes – Biennale d’Art Contemporaine, Phakt – Centre Culturel Colombier produção executiva (2017): Culturproject

coproduction
Maria Matos Teatro Municipal

Presentation in the scope of the network House on Fire with the support of the Culture Program of the European Union

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Nova Árgea André Guedes

Sinopsis

Creative Credits

André Guedes