BRAGA – Theatro Circo calls on the community to give shape to the show ‘Calm down, it’s only tomorrow’

This Wednesday, starting at 9:30 pm, Theatro Circo, in Braga, presents the creation “Calma, it’s only tomorrow!”, a multidisciplinary show directed by Nuno Preto that brings together around 80 participants.

This commission from Theatro Circo invited the community and different artistic groups in the region to participate in the collaborative process, in a party place to which everyone belongs, with the aim of evoking the 50th anniversary of the revolution.

“We are on April 24th. We know that tomorrow a revolution will happen. The one that for 50 years has celebrated the freedoms that we have not yet achieved today. What do we need to do to get there? Is it already too late? Calm down, it’s only tomorrow. There is still time if we start today and if we start together”, says the show’s synopsis.

And if we knew that the revolution would happen tomorrow, how would we prepare for it? This is the question imposed on those who participated, throughout these nine rehearsals, in the process of constructing the show.

From the public call, more than 30 people aged between four and 73 accepted the challenge, and joined the bass drum group TAMBOMBO from Escola de Palmeira, students from Conservatório Bomfim, Escola de Dança Ginasiano and Academia Clássico Contemporânea, and the NEED Cooperative, exploring movement, music, theater and writing as modes of expression.

The basic objective of this show is to reflect the 25th of April for each of the participants and the public, what has yet to be achieved in these 50 years, and invites us to write a new constitution of new rights, exploring the freedoms inhibited through the experiences of each one .

“It is a reflection of the territory of those who were born and live in Braga, but also of those who chose it to live, and explore the previous experiences of those who come from other cities or countries, and how this past influences the 25th of April of each person ”, says Theatro Circo.

According to Nuno Preto, director, the work carried out with the different groups was a “total collaboration process” and brings together the different processes between the groups on stage on the 24th. There are approximately 80 people with 80 different expectations, in an attempt not to defraud each of them or the primary objective of creation.

Tickets available at Theatro Circo for five euros, at the usual locations and online (HERE).