Agenda Municipal / Theatre Jesus, the Son
Fri 04 Nov
Casa das Artes programme
Casa das Artes | Grand Auditorium - 21h30
Entry: 6 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and seniors (over 65 years): 3 euros | Rating: M/16 | Duration: 80 min
Jesus the Son portrays the contemporary, unpredictable universe of successive and (in) expected losses: the loss of youth, dreams, family, identity, courage, integrity, freedom, life. The show is an apokálypsis (revelation, in Greek), a self of faith, an immolation, a poetic-perverse ceremonial about farewell, the end of the world and the search for salvation. Jesus, the central character - who is not Jesus, but who is still a "messiah" - speaks to us without artifice, delighting his courage and intelligence. He is an ordinary man who does not let himself be influenced, not by speech or tone of voice. Who is firm and tough, relentless in his criticism of the world. That gains a mythical and heroic dimension, political and human, that distinguishes him from all others. A man who will die, but who continues where he is. Being what it is. Human. A guide man who is afraid, like all of us, but still alive, in the midst of horror and death.
The show presents, as a dramaturgical/scenic structure, the steps of confession and reconciliation: the examination of conscience, repentance, confession and the fulfilment of penance. The intimate sacrifice of Jesus the Son in the public space of the scene is the act of desperate rebellion; the struggle to regain the identity lost in the disloyal slaughter of everyday life. However, redemptive, confession never loses the hard side of interrogation: exposure, humiliation and violence. “I’m tired, because at some point, you have to be tired. That I’m tired, I don’t know, it wouldn’t do me any good to know, because fatigue stays the same." (Fernando Pessoa in "A Mística do Instante" by J.T. Mendonça, 2015).
List of credits
Text and Staging: Elmano Sancho
Performance: Denys Bortnyi, Joana Bárcia and Vicente Wallenstein
Staging assistance: Paulo Lage
Set design: Samantha Silva
Costumes: Ana Paula Rocha
Light Design: Pedro Nabais
Photo: Sofia Berberan
Co-production: Loup Solitaire, Teatro da Trindade - Fundação INATEL, Casa das Artes de Famalicão, Teatro Municipal de Bragança
Partnerships: ACEGIS, AGUINENSO, APOIO/CASA DO ARTISTA, MOINHO DA JUVENTUDE
Project funded by the General Directorate of Arts (project support)
Casa das Artes | Grand Auditorium - 21h30
Entry: 6 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and seniors (over 65 years): 3 euros | Rating: M/16 | Duration: 80 min
Jesus the Son portrays the contemporary, unpredictable universe of successive and (in) expected losses: the loss of youth, dreams, family, identity, courage, integrity, freedom, life. The show is an apokálypsis (revelation, in Greek), a self of faith, an immolation, a poetic-perverse ceremonial about farewell, the end of the world and the search for salvation. Jesus, the central character - who is not Jesus, but who is still a "messiah" - speaks to us without artifice, delighting his courage and intelligence. He is an ordinary man who does not let himself be influenced, not by speech or tone of voice. Who is firm and tough, relentless in his criticism of the world. That gains a mythical and heroic dimension, political and human, that distinguishes him from all others. A man who will die, but who continues where he is. Being what it is. Human. A guide man who is afraid, like all of us, but still alive, in the midst of horror and death.
The show presents, as a dramaturgical/scenic structure, the steps of confession and reconciliation: the examination of conscience, repentance, confession and the fulfilment of penance. The intimate sacrifice of Jesus the Son in the public space of the scene is the act of desperate rebellion; the struggle to regain the identity lost in the disloyal slaughter of everyday life. However, redemptive, confession never loses the hard side of interrogation: exposure, humiliation and violence. “I’m tired, because at some point, you have to be tired. That I’m tired, I don’t know, it wouldn’t do me any good to know, because fatigue stays the same." (Fernando Pessoa in "A Mística do Instante" by J.T. Mendonça, 2015).
List of credits
Text and Staging: Elmano Sancho
Performance: Denys Bortnyi, Joana Bárcia and Vicente Wallenstein
Staging assistance: Paulo Lage
Set design: Samantha Silva
Costumes: Ana Paula Rocha
Light Design: Pedro Nabais
Photo: Sofia Berberan
Co-production: Loup Solitaire, Teatro da Trindade - Fundação INATEL, Casa das Artes de Famalicão, Teatro Municipal de Bragança
Partnerships: ACEGIS, AGUINENSO, APOIO/CASA DO ARTISTA, MOINHO DA JUVENTUDE
Project funded by the General Directorate of Arts (project support)
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