Teatro de Marionetas do Porto
Quem sou eu? (5th edition)
November
2023
Sat
4
Sinopse
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. — Jonh Keats
Quem sou eu? [Who am I?] is an artistic creation project, with a social cohesion component, designed for the elderly population of the city of Porto. Created in 2018, as part of the Porto Municipality's membership in the Global Network for Age-friendly Cities, and promoted in partnership with the Teatro de Marionetas do Porto, the project Quem sou eu? arises from the strong motivation to work with older communities from a perspective of artistic awareness and social inclusion. It is a sensitive look at the population, at the city's territory, a journey through the memory of elderly people, searching for the beauty in each person. — Isabel Barros
Quem sou eu? [Who am I?] is an artistic creation project, with a social cohesion component, designed for the elderly population of the city of Porto. Created in 2018, as part of the Porto Municipality's membership in the Global Network for Age-friendly Cities, and promoted in partnership with the Teatro de Marionetas do Porto, the project Quem sou eu? arises from the strong motivation to work with older communities from a perspective of artistic awareness and social inclusion. It is a sensitive look at the population, at the city's territory, a journey through the memory of elderly people, searching for the beauty in each person. — Isabel Barros
community
puppetry
© DR
Aditional info
- Price
Free entrance
-
Duration
45min - Age rating
6+
Acessibilidades do espetáculo
Accessible to wheelchair users
Author's bio text
Teatro de Marionetas do Porto was born in September of 1988, a symbolic date that corresponds to the presentation of the company at the Word Festival of Puppet Theatres in Charleville-Mézières. The company’s theatrical practice reveals a non-conventional way of looking at puppets—in fact, an ever-changing notion—and an understanding of puppet theatre as a poetic and visual language reminiscent of contemporaneity. They seek to find new ways of designing puppets, which are ultimately kinetic objects, and new ways of exploring the grammar of this theatrical language concerning performance and the cross-cutting relation with other forms of expression such as dance, visual arts, music and image. In 2013, when it celebrated its 25th anniversary, the company fulfilled the great dream of its founder (João Paulo Seara Cardoso, 1956-2010) and opened the Porto Puppet Museum.
Ficha Técnica
- Artistic direction and staging
Isabel Barros
Music
Jorge Queijo
Lighting design
Filipe Azevedo
Puppetry
Catarina Falcão and João Pedro Trindade
Performed by
António Moutinho, António Torres, Carlos Manuel Campos, Emília Gonçalves, Fernando Sousa, Isabel Sequeira, Joaquim Paulo Teixeira, Júlio Moutinho, Maria Amélia Pedrosa, Maria Carmen Naumann, Maria da Graça Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Cordeiro, Maria Elisa Branco e Severina Gouveia(users of Centro de Dia e do Centro de Convívio do Centro Social da Paróquia da Areosa), Eva Rubim (special guest), Micaela Soares and Vítor Gomes (Marionetas do Porto actors)
- Production
Sofia Carvalho
Graphic design
Rita Sá Couto
Lighting and sound operation
Filipe Azevedo
Scene photopraphy
Susana Neves
With the support of
Câmara Municipal do Porto | Pelouro da Coesão Social
In partnership with
Centro Social da Paróquia da Areosa
Structure financed by
República Portuguesa|Cultura e DGArtes
