Produção V - 3º Ano de Teatro (ESMAE)

Welcome to this gym of emotion!
An imaginary where spaces, characters, situations and objects are activated and deactivated continuously. In this dialogue, which is intended to be intimate and close, there is talk of everything and nothing. There is talk of art, consumerism, capitalism, globalization, politics, sport, the excess of brands, social networks, the trivialization of relationships and human life. A paraphernalia of banal and everyday attitudes, movements and situations invades the stage and claims its power. Here, the irrelevant becomes relevant. The details, which we so often overlook, are elevated, valued and criticized with a singular rawness and rudeness. Join us on this journey around a mixture of ideas, stories and fragments of the contemporary world, in its fullest state of (dis)grace. 


ANTÓNIO DURÃES was born in Figueira da Foz, in 1961. He attended the course at the Theatre Training School of the Centro Cultural de Évora. He has been a theatre professional since 1984 and, since 2000, a professor at ESMAE in the Theatre (Interpretation) and Music (Singing) courses. He has worked, among others, with the directors Adriano Luz, António Fonseca, Atsushi Funahashi, Carlos Pimenta, Cláudia Lucas Chéu, Edgar Pêra, Fernando Mora Ramos, Figueira Cid, Giogio Barberio Corsetti, Henrique Oliveira, João Botelho, João Henriques, João Leitão, João Pedro Vaz, João Reis, Jorge Queiroga, Jorge Silva Melo, José Ananias, José Carlos Garcia, José Carretas, José Valentim Lemos, José Wallenstein, Luís Mestre, Luís Varela, Luísa Pinto, Manuel Pureza, Marco Martins, Mário Barradas, Mark Donford-May, Miguel Loureiro, Nuno Carinhas, Nuno M. Cardoso, Paulo Castro, Paulo Rocha, Pedro Estorninho, Ricardo Pais, Rodrigo Areias, Rogério de Carvalho, Rui Madeira, Saguenail, Sérgio Graciano and Tiago Guedes, among others. He has been staging regularly since 1995. In this context and in the context of performance, he has worked on texts or musical works by Anton Chekhov, António S. Tavares, Aristotle, Bertolt Brecht, Carlo Goldoni, Count Lautréamont, Daniel Moreira, Engelbert Humperdinck, Evelyne Pieiller, Fernando Pessoa , Fernando Arrabal, Franz Schubert, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Gaetano Gaetano Donizetti, Georg Büchner, Gil Vicente, Hans Eisler, Ionesco, Jean Français, Jean-Claude Grumberg, Johann Sebastian Bach, Jorge Louraço Figueira, Jorge Prendas, José Saramago, Juan Mayorga , Karl Valentin, Kurt Weill, Luigi Pirandello, Luís de Sttau Monteiro, Luís Mestre, Marcos Portugal, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Martin Crimp, Maurice Ravel, Michel Tournier, Millôr Fernandes, Molière, Monty Python, Mozart, Nuno Corte-Real , Offenbach, Father António Vieira, Raul Brandão, Rúben A., Ruy Coelho, Sóphocles, Voltaire, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Borchert, among others.