Today, April 30th, the company Amarelo Silvestre presents the show ‘Diário de uma República II’ at the Casa da Cultura de Ílhavo. ‘Diary of a Republic’ is a 10-year project that, between 2020 and 2030, records the reality of Portuguese territory, through theater and photography. It is an artistic look at what the people and landscapes of Portugal have been like over the course of a decade.
After ‘Justice’, in the 1st edition, ‘Diário de uma República II’ (2nd edition) focuses on the issue of ‘Work’, in its broadest sense: the work of the hands, the body, the head, human work in the landscape, gender and social issues of work, the beauty and ugliness of work.
In addition to the photographs by Augusto Brázio and Nelson D’Aires, collected in artistic residencies in Nelas, Ílhavo, Leiria, Lisbon, Loulé, Ponte de Lima, Portalegre, Seia, Viana do Castelo and Vila do Conde, people’s stories are added. and their circumstances and the theater as an enabler not of answers, but of more questions.
With artistic direction by Fernando Giestas, supported by Rafaela Santos, the show is performed by actor Daniel Teixeira Pinto, who stars alongside Fernando Giestas and Ricardo Loio. The original music, played live, is by José Pedro Pinto, the scenography by Henrique Ralheta, the support for the dramaturgy and movement by Yola Pinto, the lighting design by Wilma Moutinho and the costumes by Rafaela Mapril. Throughout the process, Fernanda Eugénio provided artistic consultancy.
‘Diário de uma República II’ is a co-production at Cineteatro Louletano, Teatro D. Maria II, Teatro São Luiz, Teatro do Noroeste – Centro Dramático de Viana, Teatro Diogo Bernardes and Município de Seia.
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