Agenda Municipal / Theatre Between the Lines

Between the Lines
Sat 22 Mar
Casa das Artes Programme (Poetics of the Word | Theatre Encounters - Chapter 7)


Casa das Artes | Small Auditorium - 21h30

Admission: 4 euros | Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and Seniors (aged 65 and over): 2 euros | Rating: M/12 | Running time: 60 min

Tiago Rodrigues has written for Tónan Quito several times. Now he had to write a new text for the actor to perform alone on stage, but for mysterious reasons he missed all the deadlines. It was then that a series of accidents, as real as they were literary, gave rise to Entrelinhas.
A portrait of the long and enigmatic relationship between author and actor, this play is a secret passage linking reality to the underbelly of fiction. In a narrative labyrinth, the play mixes the text of Sophocles' Oedipus the King with a prisoner's letters to his mother, written between the lines of an edition of the Greek tragedy found in the prison library. But it always returns to the present: a theatre where an actor comes to explain to the audience why he couldn't build the show he was promised.
With a performance that earned him a nomination for Best Actor of the Year by Time Out magazine, Tónan Quito develops an intimate relationship with the audience. And he does so in an area of the theatre that belongs more to the audience than to the artists, the waiting area before the shows begin. Because that's what Entrelinhas is also about: what we expect from the theatre.

Artistic profile
Text: Tiago Rodrigues
Interpretation: Tónan Quito
Artistic collaboration and images: Magda Bizarro
Set, lighting and costume design: Magda Bizarro, Tiago Rodrigues, Tónan Quito
Technical direction and subtitling operation: André Pato
French translation: Thomas Resendes
English translation: Daniel Hahn
Production: HomemBala
Production and foreign distribution: OTTO Productions - Nicolas Roux & Lucila Piffer
Executive production on original creation: Magda Bizarro, Rita Mendes
An original creation by the company Mundo Perfeito show supported by the Government of Portugal | DGArtes


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