A cycle of staged readings and performances that bring to the public plays by ten important names in contemporary dramaturgy from Portugal and Brazil.
The programme runs from February to November and features five works from each country, performed by guest artists, followed by a conversation with the play’s author or a person connected to its themes. At the end of the cycle in November, Lígia Soares will present the performance ‘Romance’. Mediated by actor, playwright and researcher Manoel Candeias, the post-reading discussions, open to public participation, will deal with the plays, their themes and the theatrical panorama in which they are inserted.
Curated by Manoel Candeias
Authors: Cláudia Barral, Grace Passô, Jorge Palinhos, Leonardo Cortez, Lígia Soares, Marcos Barbosa, Newton Moreno, Rui Pina Coelho, Sara Barros Leitão and Tiago Rodrigues/ Guest cast: Elaine Vianna, Lígia Soares, Líria Varne, Manoel Candeias, Nuno Preto, Vivaldo Franco/ Organisation: Núcleo Volátil (Líria Varne and Manoel Candeias)
Voices of contemporary Luso-Brazilian dramaturgy is part of the Braga 25 Portuguese Capital of Culture as part of the Todo-o-Terreno programme.
Seeking to support and contribute to the flourishing of a greater number of independent cultural initiatives in the city of Braga, the Todo-o-Terreno programme aims to support projects that envisage a proposal for regular artistic programming in venues in the municipality of Braga throughout the year 2025.
From June 19 to September 12, 2024, this programme’s call for projects took place in the following artistic areas: Music, Visual Arts, Literature, Speech and Thought, Performing Arts and Cinema and Moving Image. The call received a total of 46 applications, which were assessed by a jury made up of Elisabete Paiva, artistic director of Materiais Diversos; Marta Bernardes, coordinator of the education and cultural mediation service of the museums and libraries of the City of Porto and Luís Sousa Ferreira, deputy artistic director of TNDMII. Eight projects proposed by the city’s cultural agents were selected to form part of the official programme of the Portuguese Capital of Culture.