CCB . April 11th and 12th. Friday at 8 pm and Saturday at 7 pm. Grand Auditorium
The Olga Roriz Company celebrates 30 years and re-creates the show The Hour When We Knew Nothing About Each Other, by Peter Handke, directed by Olga Roriz, with a cast of 32 performers, who are and have been part of the Company throughout this journey.
«The Time We Knew Nothing About Each Other (1992) is a play originally composed of 450 characters, walking in a square represented as a city. Your goal would be to create a day in the life of a square following a set of stage directions. The size of this production requires a large cast, made up of seven dancers and people from the community, renewed in each performance location. In this Handke square, there is the recurrence of a square norm that seems to no longer exist. We witness the passing of time without time, stories without stories, characters without verbal discourse, with an undefined past and future. It is a timeless piece in its translation of humanity onto the stage because it is open to the here and now of whoever brings it to the stage. Writing is itself choreographic in both form and content. Composed of stage directions, profile indications and actions of each participant, it offers great creative freedom. We are interested in asking, 33 years after the creation of this piece, what has changed in the world. It seems to us that this title wants to tell us much more now. That what we know about each other and ourselves is an increasingly dark well and that it is urgent to open channels for transformation, for the creation of utopia.» – Olga Roriz
Artistic file
- Directed by Olga Roriz
- Text by Peter Handke
- Translation by João Barrento
- Performers: António Bollaño, Dinis Duarte, Leonor Alecrim, Marta Jardim, Marta Lobato Faria, Roge Costa, Yonel Serrano and guest cast: Adriana Queiroz; Allan Falieri; Andrew of Campos; Beatriz Valentine; Carla Ribeiro; Catherine Chamber; Felix Lozano; Filipa Mayer; Philip Baracho; Francis Rousseau; Hugo Martins; Ludger Lumers; Luis Caboco; Mafalda Saloio; Maria Cerveira; Maria Fonseca, Miguel Moreira; Patricia Henriques; Rafaela Salvador; Ricardo Machado; Ricardo Teixeira; Sara Carinhas; Sonia Aragon; Susana Queiroz and Sylvia Rijmer
- Soundtrack by João Rapozo and Olga Roriz
- Set design and props, Eric Costa
- Costume and Wardrobe by Olga Roriz Company
- Light design by Cristina Piedade
- Sound editing by João Rapozo
- Driving assistance André de Campos
- Props assistance Paula Hespanha
- Costume assistant Ricardo Domingos
- Set design assistance Pedro Sousa, João Salgado
- Assistant stage director Ana P. Silva, Beatriz Rodrigues
- Technical direction and lighting operation João Chicó/ Pedro Guimarães
- Design, assembly and sound operation Sérgio Milhano/PontoZurca
- Co-production by the Olga Roriz Company, the Municipality of Loulé, the Arts House of Vila Nova de Famalicão, the São João National Theatre and the São Luiz Municipal Theatre.
Olga Roriz Company
- Directed by Olga Roriz
- Production Director Antonio Quadros Ferro
- Executive Producer João Pissarra
- Georgina Pires Management
- For Dance Theatre and Nuno Afonso Residencies
- Coordination Bodyinchain Catarina Câmara
- Pedagogical Assistant For Dance Theatre Yonel Serrano
The Olga Roriz Company is a structure financed by the Directorate-General for the Arts | Ministry of Culture within the scope of sustained support 2023/2026. It also has the support of the Lisbon City Council, PLMJ and, in 2025, the “La Caixa” Foundation – BPI, in the context of its 30th anniversary celebrations.
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