The rise of Arturo Ui - 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/12 | Running time: 120 min

The recent history of the world has revealed incredible similarities with a dark past. The strategies are old, but the instruments have changed for the times. The authoritarian projects that have emerged all over the world have become no less dangerous than the mafia. They have found a media outlet willing to listen to them and normalise their hate speech. Let's look inside our borders and at the most refined demagoguery in parliament. Arturo Ui is an easily recognisable character in our political landscape. His gang of mobsters are very present on social media, in private messages of hate, in the comments boxes of the media, so often replicated in coffee table conversations. Meanwhile, the reconfiguration of the political system is already underway and the far right is presenting itself as the third political force on the national scene. Hate speech is proliferating and reactionaries are coming out of the woodwork vying for a place in the sun.
 
Credit
Staging and dramaturgy: Bruno Martins
Stage assistance: Cláudia Berkeley
Text: Bertolt Brecht
Translation: José Maria Vieira Mendes
Stage design and costumes: Catarina Barros
Light desing: Valter Alves
Cast: Diana Sá, Eduardo Breda, Gonçalo Fonseca, Luísa Guerra, Pedro Couto, Valdemar Santos. 
Production: Raquel Passos
Coproduction: Teatro Nacional São João, Casa das Artes de Vila Nova de Famalicão