WE SHOULD ALWAYS FORGIVE COWARDS, BUT NEVER BECOME LIKE THEM is the first part of a triptych on the memories of the Second World War and a reflection on the desire that I violently associate with Love. The Love as a real gesture of destruction, the only necessary one, the destruction of all the systems of oppression. WE SHOULD ALWAYS FORGIVE COWARDS, BUT NEVER BECOME LIKE THEM is a performance that is based on the idea of manifest. A manifest is an action, an attitude towards the world, a cut with what bothers you, a possibility of vision, a personal speech that seeks to reach the collective. A manifest is a movement that seeks a revision of the world order, it is the materialization of a superior desire to establish an encounter. A manifest goes beyond ideology, it is closer to an existentialist action. In this performance, consisting of 7 manifests and some areas of noise, remains, traces of other possible manifests.

I seek a scenic landscape of praise for chaos, for marginal bodies, a kind of melancholic carnival, without heroes, where the myth of Penelope appears disfigured, close to a state in which the exhaustion of waiting has originated an apocalyptic version of a danse macabre or the fall of The rite of Spring. After an exile between Brussels and Berlin I offer flowers of evil on my arrival, Zaratustras in ecstasy.

DIRECTION, TEXT, INTERPRETATION, CHOREOGRAPHY, DRAMATURGY, SCENOGRAPHY, COSTUMES Tiago Vieira
PERFORMERS Hugo Teles, Marta Rijo, Izabel Nejur, Patricia Andrade, Teresa Machado, Marta Caeiro
PRODUCTION ORG.I.A
SUPPORT Self-Mistake/Produções Independentes, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Produções Independentes is supported by Portuguese Republic – Culture / General Direction of the Arts
ORG.I.A is supported by Lisbon City Council