The 41st Festival of Almada opens on July 4th, as usual over the past 40 years. The opening honours this year are the Terminal (The State of the World), a text by Inês Barahona staged by Miguel Fragata, by Formiga Atómica.
But before, at 17h, the space of the Esplanade of the School D. António da Costa, with the Bar of the Esplanade; at 19h, the Restaurant of the Esplanade, where in addition to being able to dine will be able to attend the first concert of the Festival of Almada. Music on the Esplanade begins at 8:30 pm, with Cante Alentejano and is free to enter; at 9 pm, the Liberdade! Liberdade exhibitions will be inaugurated! The Revolution in the Theatre, in the Multipurpose Room of the D. António da Costa School, and then the installation A Dream of Federico García Lorca in Lisbon, in honour of the company A Barraca; at 22h, the Grand Stage of the School D. António da Costa receives Terminal (O Estado do Mundo).
Along Terminal, we observed, and heard five characters whose lives converged in that place where so many destinations are closed, and where many others open. The confined (but open) space serves as a metaphor for this reflection on the planet we inhabit and the relationship we maintain with it: in the imminence of a point of no-return climate that may lead to the extinction of our species, the stories told by the characters revealing so many other doors open to a new destiny – a new chance – for Humanity, based on other assumptions. In the conviction that theatre still retains the power to awaken, to challenge and to expect from us the same generosity with which it gives itself before us. Terminal was preceded by a thorough fieldwork, which covered the continental territory and the Azores, two more locations in France, leading to a survey of the central concerns of the piece. It concludes a diptych started in 2021, with The State of the World (Quando Acordas), which has already had more than 120 presentations in Portugal, France and Spain. From the Festival of Almada, Terminal goes to that of Avignon.
A celebrar o seu 10.º aniversário, a Formiga Atómica foi fundada por Miguel Fragata (Porto, 1983) e Inês Barahona (Lisboa, 1977), tendo desde então esta dupla criado nove espectáculos (este incluído), sendo que três deles já têm versão francesa, dois versão em castelhano e um, versão alemã – com destaque para A caminhada dos elefantes (2013: espectáculo de estreia da companhia), já traduzido nessas três línguas.
Terminal (O Estado do Mundo) (Palco Grande da Escola D. António da Costa, dia 4 de julho, às 22h)
Texto: Inês Barahona
Encenação de Miguel Fragata
Interpretação: Anabela Almeida, Carla Galvão Miguel Fragata, Vasco Barroso e (música ao vivo) Hélder Gonçalves e Manuela Azevedo
Cenografia: Eric da Costa
Figurinos: José António Tenente
Música: Hélder Gonçalves
Desenho de luz: Rui Monteiro
Desenho de som: Nelson Carvalho
Formiga Atómica
Co-produção: Cine-Teatro São Pedro, Lavrar o Mar, RTP, Teatro Municipal de Ourém, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Teatro Nacional S. João, Teatro Virgínia, Teatro Viriato, ACERT, Théâtre du Point du Jour, e Festival d’Avignon
Língua: Português
Duração: 1h30m
Classificação: M/14
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