The Hour We Knew Nothing about Each Other - Portal do Município de Vila Nova de Famalicão - Portugal

Casa das Artes | Grand auditorium - 21h30

Entry: 6 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and Seniors (aged 65 and over): 3 euros | Rating: M/16 | Running time: 100 min

The Hour We Knew Nothing about Each Other (1992) is a play originally made up of 450 characters, walking around a square represented as a city. Its aim was to create a day in the life of a square by following a set of stage directions. The scale of this production requires a large cast, made up of seven dancers and people from the community, renewed at each performance venue. In Handke's square, there is a recurrence of a square norm that no longer seems to exist. We watch time roll by without time, stories without stories, and characters without verbal speech, with an indefinite past and future. It's a timeless play in its translation of humanity to the stage because it's open to the here and now of those who perform it. The writing is choreographic in both form and content. Composed of didaskalias, indications of the profile and actions of each actor, it nevertheless offers a great deal of creative freedom. Thirty-one years after the creation of this piece, we are interested in asking what has changed in the world. It seems to us that this title now means much more. That what we know about each other and ourselves is an increasingly dark well and that we urgently need to open channels for transformation, for the creation of utopia. Olga Roriz, April 2022

Cast and crew
Direction: Olga Roriz;
Text: Peter Handke;
Translation: João Barrento;
Cast: António Bollaño, Dinis Duarte, Gaya de Medeiros, Marta Jardim, Marta Lobato Faria, Roge Costa, Yonel Serranos and 15 elements of the community
Soundtrack: João Raposo and Olga Roriz;
Stage design and props: Eric Costa;
Costumes: Olga Roriz Company wardrobe;
Light design: Cristina Piedade;
Sound editing: João Raposo;
Assistant director: André de Campos;
Rehearsal assistance: Victória Bemfica;
Props assistance: Paula Hespanha;
Costume assistance: Ricardo Domingos;
Set design assistance: Pedro Sousa and João Salgado;
Stage Manager assistance: Ana P. Silva and Victória Bemfica;
Costume supporting (Training): David Duarte; 
Technical direction and Light Operator: João Chicó/ Pedro Guimarães;
Design, Montage and Sound design: PontoZurca;

Olga Roriz Company
Director: Olga Roriz;
Production management: António Quadros Ferro;
Executive production: João Pissara;
Management: Georgina Pires;
For Dance Theatre and Residences: Lina Duarte;
Corpoemcadeia coordination: Catarina Câmara