The Man Who Was a Spoon — Cão Solteiro & Greg Wohead
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A man enters the room. He comes to recite a poem, by an author he can’t remember. The words are reverted. Time and shapes are reverted. The author is himself, in another time, another place. The way in which some significant structures subsist in the theatre, regarding mainly time and space but also the definition of characters, are some of the reflection subjects for this project. It starts from the hypothesis that actors wil unfold multiple identities, true and false, sometimes absurd, and from a simple action – entering a room to recite a poem in front of an audience. It starts also from the possibility of subverting the situation to the limit of awkwardness, by posing random questions. In each presentation a new actor will enter the scene in real time. Given data about time, place, action and identity, will give place to a game of doubts on, among other things, the viewers position.
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A show by: Greg Wohead, Daniel Worm D’Assumpção, Mariana Sá Nogueira, Paula Sá Nogueira, Vasco Araújo, Cecília Henriques e Tiago Jácome.
Special participation of: Diogo Bento e Tiago Vieira.
Production direction and photography: Joana Dilão
Executive Production: Mariana Sá Marques
Co-Production: Cão Solteiro e TBA | Teatro do Bairro Alto
Co-Production Residency: O Espaço do Tempo
Companhia financiada pela República Portuguesa/ Cultura – DGArtes e Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
About Cão Solteiro & Greg Wohead
CÃO SOLTEIRO is a platform of artists creating theatre pieces in Lisbon since 1997, directed by actor Paula Sá Nogueira, costume designer Mariana Sá Nogueira, and producer/photographer Joana Dilão. Their creative process relies on the construction of images, and their work often code-switches between different artistic languages and disciplines. They continually question the formal relevance of theatre and test its structural rules, focusing mainly on how communication establishes itself and unfolds in the theatre. Their tools include the displacement and purposeful misuse of formal elements and of meaning, absurd entrances, errors, and pure lies.
GREG WOHEAD is a writer, performer and live artist. His most recent collaborative work, Heading Against the Wall with Portuguese company Cão Solteiro and filmmaker André Godinho, is composed of a live performance in a Lisbon nightclub and a simultaneously broadcast online film. His durational work with GIFT Festival, Crack of Dawn, was performed online continuously from sunrise to sunset. Story #3 (Gaping Hole), his collaboration with Rachel Mars revolving around plot holes, was a commission by Ovalhouse in London to make a performance that involved destroying parts of the building. He worked with Gillie Kleiman to make Familiar, a performance in two parts about significant otherness through a canine lens, which premiered at Fierce Festival in Birmingham.
