A CREATION BY Mário Coelho
w/ Ana Valente, Ana Valentim, Anabelo Ribeira, Bárbara Bruno, Carolina Dominguez, Cleo Tavares, Filipe Baptista, Margarida Correia, Mariana Medeiros, Pedro Baptista, Rita Rocha Silva.

This performance is presented within Young Emerging Performers, a result of the partnership between Rua das Gaivotas 6 and O Espaço do Tempo.

Aiming at directing a biographic performance (staging key moments of his/her life i.e. moments of a real pass and an imaginary future – although there is a fine line separating both), and actress/director starts an online audition looking for interpreters able to fill the necessary requirements for the  for the project in question. After the initial phase, the search for actors, the first day of rehearsals follows.

“In my beginning is my end. In succession, Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place, Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth, Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf. Houses live and die: there is a time for building, And a time for living and for generation (…)”

T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets”