Agenda Municipal / Theatre Anonymous is not a woman's name
Sat 07 Dec
Casa das Artes programme
Casa das Artes | Grand Auditorium - 21h30
Entry: 6 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card holders and senior citizens (aged 65 and over): 3 euros | Rating: M/16 | Running time: 70 min
Oppressive regimes have forced women to be interned in mental institutions. Branded insane for defying the rules, they were imprisoned, tortured and 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 so long ago. At the Santa Teresa mental hospital, two women who have been hospitalised struggle with their pain, doubts and shattered dreams. A labourer witnesses the unthinkable and questions her role. A mother waits. A doctor reduces patients to numbers. A mayor watches over the regime's oiled ‘machine’. In that dehumanised place, however, there is hope: can goodness overcome oppression? As these lives tangle together, another woman tells her story. Love and violence, madness and truth, fame and loneliness, violence and feminism. History is so close, dangerously close. Inside us.
Artistic File
Text: Mariana Correia Pinto
Staging: António Durães
Assistant director: Joaquim Gama
Acting: Luísa Pinto and Maria Quintelas
Musical composition and interpretation: Cristina Bacelar
Scenic space: António Durães
Costumes: Collective creation
Lighting: Francisco Alves
Stage Photography: Paulo Pimenta
Production support: Constança Antunes and Carla Gomes
Co-production: Narrativensaio-AC a Casa Das Artes de Famalicão and SP- Escola de Teatro (Brazil)
Support: Mira Forum and Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo/ESAP, FCT.
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