Agenda Municipal / Theatre The obsession of Vilegiatura
Thu 11 and Fri 12 May
Casa das Artes programme
Grand auditorium | 21h30
Admission: 4 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and Seniors (over 65 years): 2 euros | Rating: M/12 | Running time: 80 min
In this comedy, Carlo Goldoni takes us on a journey through the Italian society of the 1700s, obsessed with countryside holidays. We follow the characters in their saga to find the money to have the most luxurious holidays and compete with their neighbours to show who has the best evenings, hoping to hear the highest praise and fearing severe criticism of a whole society that rushes to their country houses to spend in a fortnight what they will have to pay back with high interest for the rest of the year. Obsession of Vilegiatura, in my opinion, has a huge parallel with contemporary society; we live lives built to show off on social networks and we often go into debt to keep up appearances. This text by the extraordinary Carlo Goldoni, helps us reflect on what has changed so little from 1700 to 2023, the human being is still the same precious ridiculousness as ever.
Credits
Coproduction: Casa das Artes de Famalicão and ACE Famalicão
Text: Carlo Goldoni’s Le smanie per la villeggiatura from the Trilogia della villeggiatura
Staging: Paulo Calatré
Cast: Rita Neves, André Leite, Beatriz Dinis, Catarina Pereira, Daniel Siqueira, Diana Sá, Diana Ferreira, Diana Gandra, Inês Andrade, Inês Lancaster, Lara Cardoso, Lary, Margarida Silva, Maria Camões, Sofia Cunha, Mariana Meireles, Mónica Sofia, Paula Ribeiro, Rúben Ferreira and Simão Ferreira
Costume designer and Stage props: Paula Cabral
Still photographer: José Caldeira
Hairdresser: José Resende
Director: Glória Cheio
Production: Rui Bezerra
Assistant director: Jorge Azevedo
Grand auditorium | 21h30
Admission: 4 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and Seniors (over 65 years): 2 euros | Rating: M/12 | Running time: 80 min
In this comedy, Carlo Goldoni takes us on a journey through the Italian society of the 1700s, obsessed with countryside holidays. We follow the characters in their saga to find the money to have the most luxurious holidays and compete with their neighbours to show who has the best evenings, hoping to hear the highest praise and fearing severe criticism of a whole society that rushes to their country houses to spend in a fortnight what they will have to pay back with high interest for the rest of the year. Obsession of Vilegiatura, in my opinion, has a huge parallel with contemporary society; we live lives built to show off on social networks and we often go into debt to keep up appearances. This text by the extraordinary Carlo Goldoni, helps us reflect on what has changed so little from 1700 to 2023, the human being is still the same precious ridiculousness as ever.
Credits
Coproduction: Casa das Artes de Famalicão and ACE Famalicão
Text: Carlo Goldoni’s Le smanie per la villeggiatura from the Trilogia della villeggiatura
Staging: Paulo Calatré
Cast: Rita Neves, André Leite, Beatriz Dinis, Catarina Pereira, Daniel Siqueira, Diana Sá, Diana Ferreira, Diana Gandra, Inês Andrade, Inês Lancaster, Lara Cardoso, Lary, Margarida Silva, Maria Camões, Sofia Cunha, Mariana Meireles, Mónica Sofia, Paula Ribeiro, Rúben Ferreira and Simão Ferreira
Costume designer and Stage props: Paula Cabral
Still photographer: José Caldeira
Hairdresser: José Resende
Director: Glória Cheio
Production: Rui Bezerra
Assistant director: Jorge Azevedo
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