40 min. approx.
at Stage Hall
fri 10.30am
School groups grades 1-6
price €2.50
sat 10.30am | Families (ages 6+)
price €5 // w/o discount
José Saramago’s books possess the birthmark of nomadic, itinerant, texts, transcending their own story to enter the story of those who read them – and re-tell them. Writer Afonso Cruz takes “The Biggest Flower in the World” and “The Silence of Water”, two of Saramago’s stories for children, intersecting and reorganizing their plots, while Catarina Câmara fuses word and body, exploring notions of frontier, pleasure and fear, moral and spatial conventions and the aesthetic experience has an ethical compass that guides us through the senses and our own imagination. This show, about the child-person and their desire to assign meaning to the world, was created in 2022, the year celebrating the centenary of José Sarmago’s birth.
Creation, performance and dramaturgy Catarina Câmara ·
Original text Afonso Cruz ·
Adaptation of the original text Catarina Câmara ·
Lighting design Cristóvão Cunha ·
Set design Wilson Mestre Galvão ·
Original music Gonçalo Alegre ·
Movement consultancy Francesca Bertozzi ·
Production PLAY FALSE Associação Cultural ·
Co-production Centro Cultural de Belém/ Fábrica das Artes; Teatro Municipal da Guarda; AMAC - Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita, Barreiro; Casa da Criatividade, São João da Madeira ·
Creation / artistic residencies support Estúdios Victor Córdon / OPART, Centro Cultural da Malaposta, Estúdio CAB / Lisbon, Companhia Olga Roriz ·
This project was financed by Direção Geral das Artes / República Portuguesa - Cultura
© Augusto Cabrita
