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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Il Festival di Almada, giunto quest’anno alla sua trentottesima edizione, torna a ospitare nella sua programmazione spettacoli internazionali e portoghesi, incentrando tutta la sua identità sul dialogo tra teatro e danza estera e locale.
Tra gli spettacoli di danza presenti...
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...
