Agenda Municipal / Theatre Anonymous Is Not a Woman's Name - premiere
19, 20 and 21 Jan
Casa das Artes programme
Grand Auditorium | 21h30
Admission: 6 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and Seniors (over 65 years): 3 euros | Rating: M/16 | Duration: 70 min
Oppressive regimes forced the internment of women in asylums. Thought to be insane for defying norms, they were imprisoned, tortured, forgotten. Thousands died. Starting from these real lives, Anonymous is not a woman’s name rescues silenced stories and confronts us with remnants of a time not far away. In the hospice of Santa Teresa, two hospitalized women struggle with their pains, doubts and dreams in shards. A worker witnesses the unthinkable and questions her role. A mother waits. A doctor reduces patients to numbers. A mayor watches over the oiled "machine" of the regime. In that dehumanized place, however, hope arises: can goodness overcome oppression? As these lives become entangled, another woman narrates her story. Love and violence, madness and truth, fame and loneliness, violence and feminism. History so close, dangerously close. Inside us.
List of credits
Co-production: Narrativensaio - AC and Casa das Artes de Famalicão
Text: Mariana Correia Pinto
Directed by: António Durães
Assistant director: Joaquim Gama
Performers: Luísa Pinto and Maria Quintelas
Musical composition and interpretation: Cristina Bacelar
Scenic space: António Durães
Costumes: Collective creation
Light: Francisco Alves
Stage Photography: Paulo Pimenta
Production support: Constança Antunes and Carla Gomes
Support: Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo / ESAP and SP - Escola de Teatro (Brazil)
Grand Auditorium | 21h30
Admission: 6 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and Seniors (over 65 years): 3 euros | Rating: M/16 | Duration: 70 min
Oppressive regimes forced the internment of women in asylums. Thought to be insane for defying norms, they were imprisoned, tortured, forgotten. Thousands died. Starting from these real lives, Anonymous is not a woman’s name rescues silenced stories and confronts us with remnants of a time not far away. In the hospice of Santa Teresa, two hospitalized women struggle with their pains, doubts and dreams in shards. A worker witnesses the unthinkable and questions her role. A mother waits. A doctor reduces patients to numbers. A mayor watches over the oiled "machine" of the regime. In that dehumanized place, however, hope arises: can goodness overcome oppression? As these lives become entangled, another woman narrates her story. Love and violence, madness and truth, fame and loneliness, violence and feminism. History so close, dangerously close. Inside us.
List of credits
Co-production: Narrativensaio - AC and Casa das Artes de Famalicão
Text: Mariana Correia Pinto
Directed by: António Durães
Assistant director: Joaquim Gama
Performers: Luísa Pinto and Maria Quintelas
Musical composition and interpretation: Cristina Bacelar
Scenic space: António Durães
Costumes: Collective creation
Light: Francisco Alves
Stage Photography: Paulo Pimenta
Production support: Constança Antunes and Carla Gomes
Support: Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo / ESAP and SP - Escola de Teatro (Brazil)
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