How to retell the story of a painting through the creation of a performance in a specific time and space?

O BARDO is a theatrical performance made to intervene in unconventional spaces. It takes as a starting point the painting Y Bardd (1774) by Thomas Jones, inspired by the massacre of welsh bards during the English invasion of Wales territory in the 13th Century.
The last welsh bard – the central figure of the painting – comes to a space to tell his personal story to the spectator, before committing his last act.

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based on the painting Y Bardd by Thomas Jones
poem Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas (based on the Portuguese translation by Fernando Guimarães)
concept and performed by Manuel Henriques
artistic collaboration Ana Bigotte Vieira and Mestre André
support Museu Municipal do Bombarral