Agenda Municipal / Theatre The weaver who read Zola
Sat 03 May
Narciso Ferreira Theatre programme
Riba de Ave | Narciso Ferreira Theatre - 21h30
Admission: 2 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and Seniors (aged 65 and over): 1 euro | Rating: M/14 | Running time: 100 min
Portugal, 70s. Inspired by the revolutionary movements of the time, young Portuguese, bourgeois, urban and literate, decide to abandon their studies or their first jobs and head for the factories and the countryside to make the “cultural revolution”. Clandestinely, while preaching the revolution, they pick up hoes and operate agricultural and factory machinery. In their suitcases they keep Émile Zola's Germinal, Mao Zedong's Red Book, Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism and a great desire to change the world.
Youth, love, revolution, libido and reality mix and mingle with discipline, rules, capitalism, clandestinity and utopia. They are young people trying to live their best years. The Weaver Who Read Zola is the second show in the TEP's Youth Trilogy, whose plays focus on Portugal in the 1950s, 1970s and 1990s respectively. The first part, O Grande Tratado de Encenação, premiered last spring at the Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery. The third part, Absolute Majority, will premiere in 2018.
“I dedicate this show to all those who risked their lives in Portugal fighting against the dictatorship so that their children could have opportunities that they didn't have. Not everything will have gone smoothly, but the gesture was truly transformative, beautiful and inspiring. I owe everything I am today to my parents”.
- Gonçalo Amorim.
Artistic record
Direction and co-creation: Gonçalo Amorim
Dramaturgical support and co-creation: Rui Pina Coelho
Set design, costumes and co-creation: Catarina Barros
Set and costume design assistant: Ana Simões, Nuno Encarnação
Light design and co-creation: Francisco Tavares Teles
Light set-up and operation: Renato Marinho
Music and co-creation: Pedro João
Acting: Catarina Chora, Daniel Teixeira, Telma Cardoso, Tomé Pinto
Production Manager: Patrícia Gonçalves
Production: Abigail Raposo
Communication and Press: Bruno Moreira
Co-production: Teatro Municipal do Porto
2 readings