TEATRO EXPERIMENTAL DO PORTO (TEP)

Hasty and enthusiastic readers about the first socialist utopias, among quotations, discussions, ballads, shoot-outs, poems, jokes, horseback rides through the early worries of capitalism, the three cowboys try to create a new world to live in. However, their utopias and revolutionary projects come up against the capitalist model and they will have to decide the direction for their actions and what to do when their hands are stained with blood. “Casa Vaga” is a cowboy play that focuses on interests and topics present in recent TEP programmes: a questioning of the real living and working conditions in Portugal, and an examination of the systemic methods of domination that the capitalist model exerts over individuals and on their aspirations for happiness Mixing history and fiction, desire and utopia, pistols and books, in this performance, the world, the old and the new, is an empty house that we will occupy.

Teatro Experimental do Porto (TEP) is the oldest theatre company in operation in Portugal, having presented its first performance in 1953. Under the artistic direction of António Pedro (1953-1961), TEP was a pioneer of modern theatre in Portugal. Between 1998 and the end of 2009, the company was directed by Norberto Barroca, after which Júlio Gago took over. In 2012, Gonçalo Amorim, resident stage director since 2010, became its artistic director.