Make Trouble
The Five Lesbian Brothers
As Secretárias
by Maria Inês Marques
January
2025
premiere
Fri
17
Sat
18
Sinopse
Bacchantes, witches, secretaries… Since the dawn of time, it has been in the forest that women have settled the score with the patriarchy, beaten up kings, sensualised with goats and slaughtered lumberjacks. In short, they restore balance to the world.
Set in the fictional town of Big Bone “before Windows 95”, As Secretárias [The Secretaries], by the American feminist collective The Five Lesbian Brothers, tells the story of five women who work in a large sawmill. Confined to a sterile office where they feed the macho fetishes of the employees and their boss, the women create a secret cult whose putative mission is to brutally redress gender injustices in the company. Premiered in New York in 1993, the text now arrives in Portugal, in a show that recovers the aesthetics of slashers and television fiction from the 1980s and 90s, putting forward a rigorous and uncomfortable study of the insidious infiltration of patriarchy into women’s professional and interpersonal world. — Maria Inês Marques
This performance contains scenes with violence and smoking on stage.
Set in the fictional town of Big Bone “before Windows 95”, As Secretárias [The Secretaries], by the American feminist collective The Five Lesbian Brothers, tells the story of five women who work in a large sawmill. Confined to a sterile office where they feed the macho fetishes of the employees and their boss, the women create a secret cult whose putative mission is to brutally redress gender injustices in the company. Premiered in New York in 1993, the text now arrives in Portugal, in a show that recovers the aesthetics of slashers and television fiction from the 1980s and 90s, putting forward a rigorous and uncomfortable study of the insidious infiltration of patriarchy into women’s professional and interpersonal world. — Maria Inês Marques
This performance contains scenes with violence and smoking on stage.
satire
feminisms
anti-patriarchy
slasher
As Secretárias © Mafalda Lencastre
Aditional info
- Price
7€
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Duration
2h00
- Age rating
16+
- Additional information
Spoken in Portuguese
Acessibilidades do espetáculo
Strobe or intense lights
Author's bio text
Maria Inêss Marques (Porto, 1990) is a playwright, director and programmer. She has a PhD in dramaturgy from the Yale School of Drama. In 2020, she co-founded the artistic collective UMA, where she develops her creative work for theatre, performance and installation, including Holobionte [Holobiont] (2022) and Piloto [Pilot] (2023). In 2023, she co-created the virtual reality performance Bertie. She curated the on-line platform FITEI Digital between 2022 and 2024. She is currently a performing arts programmer at Theatro Circo, in Braga.
Ficha Técnica
- Text
The Five Lesbian Brothers
Translated and directed by
Maria Inês Marques
Cast
Carolina Amaral, Crista Alfaiate, June João, Lígia Roque, Maria Jorge
Special participation (voice-over)
Luís Moreira
Set design and costumes
Pedro Azevedo
Execution and modeling of costumes
Ana Fernandes with the assistance of Amália Silva Carvalho, Graça Bica, Rosa Almeida
Original music and sound design
Rui Lima, Sérgio Martins
Lighting design
Teresa Antunes
Video
Fábio Coelho
Choreographic support
Diego Bragà
Characterization
Jacinta Afonso
- Production director
Nuno Eusébio
Communication
Luís Moreira, Maria Inês Marques, Nuno Eusébio
Photography
Mafalda Lencastre
Produced by
Plataforma UMA
Co-produced by
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II, Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente, Cineteatro Louletano
Artistic residency support
Espaço Oficina
Support
Rua das gaivotas 6, Hotel Lisbon Art Stay, Garbox, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa e Pólo Cultural das Gaivotas, Santos e Irmãos, fauna - Teatro da Didascália, Lipor, Belbrisa - Estores
This project has the financial support of the Portuguese Republic / Directorate-General for the Arts and the AGECOP – SPA Cultural Fund.
