THEATER
fri 9.00pm | 90 min. | ages 14+at Stage Hallprice A: €10 / €7.50 / €5 // discounts may apply price Youth €5
"Blackface" is a solo show, written and staged by Marco Mendonça. It is a musical conference, somewhere between stand up and fantasy, satire and physical theatre, the burlesque and the documental.
Inspired both by his own personal experience and the history of blackface as a racist theatrical practice - from its roots in the USA to examples here in Portugal -, Marco Mendonça searches for the limits of what may, or may not, be put on stage.
Considering the extensive library of events in which this racist practice was used to portray black people as inferior members of Portuguese society, can we really say that there is no such thing as racism in Portugal?
"Blackface" is a solo show, written and staged by Marco Mendonça. It is a musical conference, somewhere between stand up and fantasy, satire and physical theatre, the burlesque and the documental.
Inspired both by his own personal experience and the history of blackface as a racist theatrical practice - from its roots in the USA to examples here in Portugal -, Marco Mendonça searches for the limits of what may, or may not, be put on stage.
Considering the extensive library of events in which this racist practice was used to portray black people as inferior members of Portuguese society, can we really say that there is no such thing as racism in Portugal?
Additional information
Artistic direction, creation and performance Marco Mendonça Creation support Bruno HucaDramaturgy support Gisela CasimiroMusic writing and sound design Mestre AndréVideo Heverton HarienoLighting design Rui MonteiroSet design Pedro AzevedoCostumes Aldina JesusTechnical direction Manuel AbrantesSet construction Daniela CardanteProduction Alkantara Sinara Suzin and Carolina GameiroCo-production Alkantara, Teatro do Bairro Alto and Teatro ViriatoCo-production residency O Espaço do TempoResidency support Moussem Nomadic Arts CentreAcknowledgments Ana Cristina Mendonça, André e. Teodósio, Artistas Unidos, Bernardo Peixoto, Catarina Amaral, Cidália Espadinha, Cleo Diára, Eduardo Mendonça, Eduardo Molina, Gio Lourenço, Isabél Zuaa, Márcia Mendonça, Marcos Cardão, Maria Jorge, Nádia Yracema, Nuna, Nuno Lopes, Soraia Tavares, Raquel S., Tiago Bartolomeu Costa and Vanessa Coelho