A Barraca presents Love is a fire that burns without being seen…

After the success of the presentations in Faro, Sines, Santo André, Santiago do Cacém, Lagos, Tondela, Queluz, Caldas da Rainha, CCB in Lisbon, and in his home, A Barraca, at the request of the public, enthusiastically announces dates in January 2025 at TEC – Mirita Casimiro Municipal Theater – Cascais

Friday and Saturday at 9:00 pm | Sunday at 16:00

For those who haven’t had the opportunity to see the show yet, get your tickets to celebrate up close the V Centenary of the Poet’s birth, a show by A Barraca about the life and work of Luís Vaz de Camões, with dramaturgy and direction by Hélder Mateus da Costa and Maria do Céu Guerra.

Love is a fire that burns without being seen, why?

A show of the historical/poetic genre cannot carry dusty and outdated loads.

Paying homage to the classics means modernizing them and making them accessible to today’s audiences.

It is in this difficulty that lies the pleasure of being able to demonstrate that ancient stories have to do with the always constant and irregular human behaviour. Camões is one of the most important symbols of our golden age, the 16th century. It is a living testimony to the modern and progressive intellectual in the line of Erasmus and Tomas More, his contemporaries. Over the centuries he has always been referred to as a patriot by liberals and Republicans and also used by the most reactionary families (descendants of those who always persecuted him and denied him any support and economic protection).

Therefore, it was necessary to carry out a “cleaning operation” on our Camões and show it in all its grandeur and independence. As an example to the young people and intellectuals of our days.

It is not my intention to propose a new look at the Camões icon and the period of great Portuguese navigation, but it is necessary to know all the realities that were hidden and hidden. In the line of Gil Vicente, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Damião de Góis and Chiado denounced at the same time that this golden period was due to the work of scientists and the people who were dragged onto the ships. And that Discovery was often synonymous with robbery and massacres at a Universal level. History cannot be corrected, but I can only like my country (or any other country) if I know its positive and reprehensible sides.

But, also very important and interesting, is to think that this important epic text – in addition to offering Love to Portuguese navigators as a prize on the Ilha dos Amores, is also the great adventure of the Portuguese language.

Helder Mateus da Costa

ABOUT THE SHOW

LOVE IS A FIRE THAT BURNS WITHOUT SEEING (2024) tells the journey of Luís Vaz, the navigator of the Portuguese language, carrying memories of love and heartbreak, many losses and mistreatment and prisons operated in secret collusion by many enemies of his contemporaries. In a time of disputes, glory and intrigue, the dangers of the Inquisition always threatened one of the freest men of his time and undoubtedly its greatest poet. After adventures and misadventures that happened to him in his homeland, he went on a journey on the Gama route. With it he takes the Portuguese language, still under construction.

Seen as an epic text The Lusíadas are also the great story of the adventure of the Portuguese language that in this work/journey is confirmed and consecrated.

Always pursuing the riskiest adventure, be it love, travel or poetry, in India, he meets Garcia d’Orta, Diogo do Couto, he falls in love, he meets Macau, he meets the Island of Mozambique, Dinamene. In a shipwreck, he loses his beloved and swims to save the poem to which he had already dedicated years of his life.

17 years after leaving for India, he returns to his homeland. Always richer, always poorer, almost always alone. He only brings with him the slave Jau who will accompany him until the end. We don’t know who died first, both are eternal.

In Portugal, he presented the Lusíadas to the censor of the Holy Office, although with scenes removed the work was authorized. His vision of the “machine of the world” is not accepted and the Love Island scene is almost truncated. The next step is to show it to Dom Sebastião. The king likes the Lusíadas and approves the granting of a survival tenancy to the poet. If it weren’t for the illness, things seemed to start going better for the poet and life began to pass by.

Last time…

Camões goes to Belem to see the boats leave for Alcácer – Quibir. He’s at the end. And Portugal is close to Disaster. The two lucks come together. Returning home… Camões is supported by the slave Jau who gives him food and accompanies him. And the poet of love, just like the sailors of Gama, passes into eternity rocked by the music of the sea and the nymphs of the island of love.

Momento feliz enfim… O reencontro com a beleza acompanha o regresso do poeta à sua ilha recuperada numa invocação da paz a que todos aspiramos.

Maria do Céu Guerra

• Encenação Hélder Mateus da Costa e Maria do Céu Guerra
• Assistência de encenação Gil Filipe
• Elenco Adérito Lopes, Beatriz Dinis e Silva, Érica Galiza, Gil Filipe, Luís Ilunga, Maria do Céu Guerra, Manuel Petiz, Rita Mendes Nunes, Samuel Moura, Sérgio Moras, Teresa Mello Sampayo, Vasco Lello, Maria Baltazar (estagiária)
• Produção Inês Costa
• Apoio à Produção Gil Filipe, Manuel Petiz, Teresa Mello Sampayo
• Direcção Musical e Música Original Maestro António Victorino D’Almeida
• Cenografia A Barraca
• Concepção de Vídeo André Letria
• Desenho de Luz Vasco Letria
• Operação de Luz Ruy Santos
• Operação de Som e Vídeo João Pecegueiro
• Guarda-roupa Mestra Alda Cabrita
• Adereços Tina Simões
• Design Gráfico Inês Costa
• Cartaz e Telão Luis Henriques
• Fotos Paulo Chaves
• Classificação M/12
• Duração 120 m

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