Estrutura

F... stems from the will to question the place of women in contemporary artistic creation and in art history. Drawing inspiration from Womanhouse (1972), by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, my intention is to create a kind of womanplay, and to this end I challenged Patrícia da Silva and Paula Sá Nogueira to join me and build a space where we’re able to breath and stage what we are without restraint. And to do so for one simple reason: because we exist. There is an urgent need to reflect upon the space that we, women, occupy given that there is a considerable number of female creators, but they don’t always get the rightful visibility. I know that staging this play won’t overcome the imbalance, but the gesture, regardless of what it will say, is mainly and actively political. — Cátia Pinheiro (Estrutura)


CÁTIA PINHEIRO did her training in theatre at ACE – Contemporary Performance Academy. She worked as an actress for several directors and companies such as António Fonseca, Nuno Cardoso, Nuno Carinhas, Diogo Infante, Nuno M. Cardoso, Mundo Perfeito and Cão Solteiro, among others. In 2009, she founded Estrutura, where she developed several projects such as Geopolítica do Caos, The Walk, Display, Wanted, Uma Gaivota, Geocide, The End, M’18, The Walk#2, Pathos and Party, and she coordinated the training programme Recurso.

Cátia Pinheiro and José Nunes founded ESTRUTURA in 2009. Its most recent work includes Uma Gaivota [Seagull] (2016), Geocide (2017), The End (2017), M’18 (2018), Pathos (2019), Party (2019), The Walk#2 (2019) and the training programme Recurso (2018). It collaborated with institutions such as Teatro Municipal do Porto, Teatro Nacional São João, São Luiz Teatro Municipal and Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, among others. Estrutura has the financial support of the Directorate-General for the Arts and is one of the resident companies at Teatro Campo Alegre in the scope of the Teatro em Campo Aberto programme.