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Agenda Municipal / Theatre Migrants_premiere

Migrants_premiere
3 and 4 Jul
Casa das Artes programme


Casa das Artes | Grand Auditorium - 21h30

Admission: 4 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and Seniors (aged 65 and over): 2 euros | Rating: M/14 | Running time: 90 min | Group: ACE Famalicão

‘Migrants’, one of Matéi Visniec's latest plays, allows us to follow a series of stories that have no shortage of points of contact with a reality that most of us only know from television and newspapers: the crossing of the Mediterranean Sea in precarious boats, managed by more or less unscrupulous hauliers; the dilemma of young people who, on arriving in Europe, fall prey to organ traffickers; the backstage of politics, with a President supported by his Adviser, who doesn't shy away from ‘politically correct speech’; the sale of heartbeat detection machines for migrants (known as clandestines); the insomnia of a couple who, after seeing barbed wire walls grow around them, decide to turn their home into a kind of mercy centre. With these cases, which, although fictitious, are the result of the Romanian author's daily contact with the phenomenon (first as a citizen and then as a journalist), Matéi Visniec draws attention to the humanitarian tragedy that we comfortably call the ‘refugee crisis’. Without running the risk of repeating ourselves (or seeming exaggerated) when we return to the mistakes of yesteryear, perpetuating stigmas, prejudices, fears, terrors and misery, this play is the wake-up call we need.

Artistic file
Text: Matéi Visniec
Translation: Ângela Pardelha
Staging: Manuel Tur 
Acting: Luísa Gonçalves, Risa Monteiro, Carolina Faustino, Carolina Stuart, Clara Meira, Dinis Veloso, Gaby Freitas, Gabriela Teixeira, Júlia Tenório, Leonor Silva, Maria José Cardoso, Nídia Hamilton, Rita Poeta, Soraya, Yasmin Alícia 
Set design: Ana Gormicho 
Costumes: Beatriz Prada
Light Design: Diogo Saraiva with Mariana Rêgo 
Sound Design and Sonoplasty: Joel Azevedo 
Voice Support: Catarina Carvalho Gomes 
Hair: José Resende 
Stage Photography: Ivo Rainha 
Production Direction: Glória Cheio 
Production: Jorge Azevedo


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