Marco Martins/Arena Ensemble

Open rehearsal

Two actors stand before an unknown audience.

Their starting point is domesticity, as a building yard and arena in which spaces, times, and states made of the tension between what is domesticatable and what is untameable come into play, the show explores issues of filiation, gender and the boundaries of representation between reality and fiction, intersecting languages to address family life issues.

By engaging the flow of Beatriz Batarda and Romeu Runa’s personal memories and texts that resonate and confront their journeys – which form the matrix of the play –, Marco Martins builds a timeless drama, one without defined characters or spaces. These are reflections on the meaning and responsibility of being a person, a woman, a man, a father or a mother that defy definitions.

By / De Marco Martins
With / Com Beatriz Batarda and Romeu Runa

Original Music / Música Original Tiago Cerqueira
Set Designer / Cenário Fernando Ribeiro
Light Designer / Desenho de Luz Nuno Meira
Sound Designer / Desenho de Som Sérgio Milhano
Director’s Assistant / Assistente de Encenação Rita Quelhas

Production Director / Direcção de Produção Mariana Brandão

Co-production / Co-Produção
S. Luiz Teatro Municipal, Lisboa
Teatro Nacional S. João, Porto
Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães
Cine-Teatro Louletano, Loulé

Artistic Residencies / Residências Artísticas
dVIR/CAPa, Faro
Cine-Teatro Louletano, Loulé
CENTQUATRE, PARIS
O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo

Support / Apoio
Artworks

Acknowledgments / Agradecimento
Pro.Dança

Foto Photo Arena Ensemble