On Wednesday, the Festival opens at 6 pm with the Colloquium on the Esplanade at the D. Antônio da Costa School.
The conversation will be with Victor Hugo Pontes, choreographer of Tem algo présenta a Acontece, presented on Tuesday on the Palco Grande; at 8 pm, in the Small Auditorium of the CCB, As aves, a text by Jorge Andrade based on Aristophanes, produced by Mala Voadora and Comédias do Minho, will be presented: at 8 pm, it’s time to return to the Palco da Esplanada to listen to Plasticine; at 9:30 pm, three shows: A casa morto – Diário de uma República III, at the Cineteatro da Academia Almadense; and at the Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite Um adeus mais-que-perfeito, in the Sala Experimental; and History of Violence, in the Main Hall.
Place de la République, Paris, 4 a.m.: After a Christmas dinner, Édouard is approached by Réda. This is the chronicle of an unexpected encounter between a young writer and a man of Kabyle origin, in a night of sex that ends in rape and attempted murder. A disturbing account of structural violence and racism.
One show, several expected returns: the autobiographical story of Édouard Louis (b. 1992, renowned French writer, Prix Goncourt – First Novel in 2014), by Schaubühne Berlin (which has already presented plays such as Miss Julie and öedipus at the Festival), with Thomas Ostermeier (b. 1968), director of the company, producing an extremely tense adaptation, structured in the form of a mosaic (in which the omnipresence of hatred towards difference, whether social or sexual, is constant). Four actors play more than 10 characters, through sudden ‘cuts’, allowing the action to move instantly from one scene to another, from one character to another — a technique that Ostermeier perfected and which, in this creation, follows the fragmented structure of Louis’ novel and its polyphony. When the show was created, the writer was present at the rehearsals, giving his contribution. Accompanying the actors is a drummer, the rhythmic centre of the play. The success of the premiere of History of Violence in 2018 was so great that Schaubühne has kept this creation in its repertoire ever since. Two years later, Ostermeier approached Édouard Louis again, staging Who Killed My Father, a text presented at the 2021 Almada Festival directed by Ivo van Hove.
History of Violence Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite, Main Hall, July 9, at 9:30 pm and July 10, at 7 pm) PG-13 | 1:00 am | German with subtitles | price: €20
- A text by Édouard Louis in a version by Thomas Ostermeier, Florian Borchmeyer and Édouard Louis
Directed by Thomas Ostermeier - Acting by Christoph Gawenda, Laurenz Laufenberg, Renato Schuch, and Alina Stiegler
- Musician Thomas Witte
- Assisted Director David Stöhr
- Props and Set Design by Nina Wetzel
- Music by Nils Ostendorf
- Video by Sébastien Dupouey
- Dramaturgy by Florian Borchmeyer
- Lighting by Michael Wetzel
- Assisted Choreography by Johanna Lemke
- Schaubühne Berlin
More information at festival.ctalmada.pt
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