With winter at the doors and after more than two weeks of plays, performances, workshops and seminars, Lisbon’s Alkantara Festival 2022 draws to a close, leaving behind a constellation of thought-provoking works that, just like Vânia Doutel Vaz’ The...
Most known for his trailblazing works in experimental theatre, Robert Wilson brings back up one of his seminal and non-canonical pieces -now enriched by a renewed cast- in an attempt to remind us that the mirror he had held...
The 39th Almada Festival continues along its experimental streak with Dorothée Munyaneza’s Mesh, a hybrid performance that effectually intertwines different artistic and linguistic styles in its path to create a new map of the world in which herstories become...
Set in the liminal space between the “no longer” and the “not yet”, Yoann Bourgeois’ Minuit exalts the unquantifiable effervescence of aliveness by expanding the gap between intention and action, all the while putting up quite a show of...
The 2022 Alkantara Festival keeps on giving with full hands, this time presenting Jaha Koo’s Cuckoo, «a journey through the last 20 years of Korean history told by a bunch of talkative rice cookers» where the audience, suspended between...
Incontriamo Rodrigo Francisco, direttore artistico del Festival del Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite di Almada (Lisbona), un luogo dove la magia del teatro si fa per tutti e di tutti.
Il Festival di Almada, giunto alla sua trentaseiesima edizione, quest’anno si...
From the dry lands of central Sardinia to the northern desolate mountains of Trás-os-Montes, the 39th edition of the Almada Festival brings to Portugal the “cacodemonia” of transnational pagan rituals, shining a crepuscular light onto the latent animality we...
Incontro - tra pubblico e compagnie, critici, artisti e pubblico - è parola per definire il Festival di Almada di Lisbona, una kermesse per chi ama il teatro dove ammirare spettacoli non solo di innovazione, d’avanguardia e site-specific, ma...
After two weeks of jam-packed stalls and thunderous applauses, the 39th edition of the Almada Festival finally comes to an end and, in a successful attempt to go out with a bang, artistic director Rodrigo Francisco offers a memorable...
Arming silence with voices and the body with deities, Betty Tchomanga’s Mascarades reasserts the power of hybridity in the face of postcolonial modernity, re-imagining, re-mapping and re-constituting an elsewhere in that gap between worlds where the man, the woman,...
«It’s urgent - love», once said Eugenio de Andrade, «it’s urgent – a boat upon the sea. It’s urgent to destroy certain words, hate, solitude, and cruelty, some mourning, many swords». Urgent, yes, but not easy, as proven by...
Flying ingeniously through centuries of gender oppression and patriarchal gaslighting, Jogging by Beirut-based actress, writer and activist Hanane Hajj Ali connects the gloomily bright dots that make up the constellation of women’s subjugation, rebelling to the mainstream narrative of...
Al Festival di Almada di Lisbona, rassegna internazionale di teatro giunta alla sua 36ª edizione e conclusasi il 18 luglio scorso, è stato protagonista assoluto Mary Said What She Said di Bob Wilson.
On stage at the Cultural Center of...
In Hands do not touch your precious Me, a hymn by the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna to the goddess Inanna, Wim Vandekeybus creates a mythical tale of confrontation and transformation, light and darkness, death and rebirth -together with composer...
Portugal’s Almada Festival celebrates its 40th edition with some of the most distinguished national and international creators and companies. Twenty theatre, dance and new circus shows (eight Portuguese, twelve foreigners) will be performed on nine stages in Almada and...
In his latest, critical and powerful performance, BOCA FALA TROPA, Gio Lourenço incorporates, brings back, repeats and updates memories and cultures, mixing the personal with the universal with feverish lyrism and bringing Kuduro on the theatrical stage for a...
Beautiful aesthetics and telluric soundscapes are not enough to save Victor Hugo Pontes’ latest creation from the dangers of vacuity: Corpo Clandestino, an allegedly norm-shattering performance for seven marginalised bodies grossly misses the mark, consolidating rather than weakening the...
Thanks to Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill’s The Making of Pinocchio, a show about the joy of transformation, art and the ethics of resistance, Lisbon’s Alkantara Festival 2022 could not shine any brighter in the fading lights of the...
Directo, sin filtros, crudo. Ideado y escrito por Agnés Mateus y Quim Tarrida, en escena en el Festival de Almada, una creación desconcertante e inquietante desde el primer minuto. Un espectáculo sobre el feminicidio que no deja cómodo al...
Following their previous play, Lá, French company Baro d’evel (Manouche for “For the love of God”) brings to Portuguese audiences its latest work, Falaise, a non-place in which Life itself flows freely, laughing at our earthly attempts at making...
Through a strikingly modern, minimalist writing style and a suspenseful plot, Thomas Ostermeier re-elaborates Sophocles’ masterpiece, Oedipus Rex, turning it into a contemporary fable of capitalistic amoralities and relational inhumanities to the delight of Almada Festival’s satisfied yet confused...
Concerned with the haunting presence of the bloody, old past in our futures, SillySeason’s take on Sophocles’ Rei Édipo tries to end with the classic by shooting at it from different angles, only to realise that the aim was...
Amongst the future ruins of an ever more polarised and racialized society, Lisbon’s Alkantara Festival 2023 reinaugurates its yearly appointment with some of the most interesting national and international artist by bringing to the city’s stages Martinique-born Rébecca Chaillon’s...
In the midst of an unprecedented, anthropogenic climate crisis, Lisbon’s Alkantara Festival 2022 reinaugurates its yearly appointment with some of the most interesting national and international artist by bringing to the city’s stages the award-winning performance Sun & Sea,...
