On Saturday the 8th, at 3 pm, at Casa da Cerca – Centro de Arte Contemporânea, this year’s Encontro da Cerca will take place with the theme Creation and artificial intelligence. The meeting is moderated by journalist Karla Pequenino, who includes journalists, researchers, and creators: Ana Isabel Guerra, Miriam Seoane Santos, Paulo Dimas, Paulo Querido, Carlos Pimenta, Manuel Halpern, Rodrigo Gomes, and Rui Penha.
Also at 3 pm, the Cine-Teatro da Academia Almadense presents the play premiered on July 7 at the Almada Festival: Ventos do apocalipse. At 6 pm, Incrível Almadense presents Jogging, by Lebanese Hanane Hajj Ali. At 7 pm, the Joaquim Benite Municipal Theater presents the most recent creation by CTA, also premiered at the Festival: Calvário, with text and staging by Rodrigo Francisco. At 8.30 pm, on the Esplanade Stage, the first of today’s two free concerts: Daniel Bernardes & Manuel Teles. At 10 pm, on the Big Stage, João Mota is honored, followed by the show staged by him for Comuna – Teatro de Pesquisa: Don’t walk naked around the house!, by Georges Feydeau. Closing the night, at 23.30, another free concert on the Esplanade Stage, with O Gajo.
The Commune is back at the Festival, with a stirring comedy from what is considered the ‘king of vaudeville theatre’: the French playwright Georges Feydeau (1862-1921). Don’t walk naked around the house! briefly leaves us short of breath, thanks to the attention needed to not miss a beat of the adventures and frenzy that ensue on stage. Deputy Ventroux is at war with his wife, Clarisse, since the lady is simply not capable of giving up the (bad) habit of walking around the house in underwear. Well, behold, today this ambitious deputy is preparing to receive the President of the Chamber (and influential industrialist) Mr. Hochepaix, who could open the door to political ascension for him. However, his own butler and an impertinent reporter from Le Figaro end up causing a real domestic catastrophe. To make matters worse, a wasp also appears at home.
The director João Mota, honored this year in Almada, alerts us to the fact that “Feydeau is a precursor of surrealism and the absurd. In this text, the figure of the wife is presented as a fighter for the emancipation of women. If, at the outset, this character called Clarisse seems silly, in fact, she is “nothing stupid”: she denounces her husband and seduces her rival politician, right in his beard. As much as Mr. Ventroux insists that she get dressed, she ends up walking around the house all the time in her nightgown.
She even goes so far as to say that, if she were to receive the English royal family, she would put ‘just a dressing gown over it’, revealing a critical position towards bourgeois society, and ‘the wrong way’ in which she lives”.
Don’t Walk Naked Around The House! (Grand Stage at D. António da Costa School, 8th at 10 pm)
- Translation: Luis Vasco
- Performers: Hugo Franco, Maria Ana Filipe, Rogério Vale, Luís Garcia and Miguel Sermão
- Scenic space: João Mota
- Light design: Paulo Graça
- Execution of the costumes: Clarisse Ventroux and Master Rosário Balbi
- Costume Design: Carlos Paulo, Tango Choreography, and Samanta Garcia
- Portuguese language
- Duration: 1h20m
- Rating: M/12
- Price: 17€
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