Teatro de Ferro (Portugal)

NEW DATES

CENTRO CULTURAL DA MALAPOSTA - Black Box

28 May at 4pm (Sat) | 29 May at 11am (Sun)

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_{Technique: Object theatre Language: Portuguese Age guidance: +12 Runs: 50 min.}

Things, objects have a very special way of communicating - with us and among them - gwarggaflrlghf! The apparatus of a lecture is the starting point for this new approach to the world of things.

Same as all the others, this scheme is a way to organise objects (a table, chairs, microphones, etc.), bodies, speeches and a few rules — some written, others implied. This is no ordinary lecture, however: the speaker is an actor, and his presentation is a performance in which objects still insist on adding a few words.

Our guest will try to present some ideas on the subject. Will he be able to do so right in the middle of an object uprising?

This is the second part of a cycle dedicated to objects, which started with Objetoteca Popular Itinerante.

^{"Our Objects Rebellion wants to talk about all this and also about the fear that a certain piece of furniture inspired us in childhood, especially when it cracked in the middle of the night -  for us this is the beginning of the rebellion..." - Igor Gandra}

BIO

Teatro de Ferro was founded in 1999. The artistic directors are Carla Veloso and Igor Gandra. The choice of the name - Teatro de Ferro (Iron Theatre) - implies a notion of primordial, resistant and at the same time changeable matter: this transformation process continues to inspire them. The work of the Company has been developed in the theatre of, and with, puppets and objects. They conceive their practice in the logic of a research in which the puppet has assumed a matrix value in its possible hybridizations, both tempted and tempting. The relationships - of the body interpreter with the manipulated object and the implication of each spectator in the building of this relation - are lines of thought that are transversal to the artistic practice of Teatro de Ferro. The company has the support of Ministério da Cultura, Direção-Geral das Artes, since 2003. Igor Gandra is the artistic diretor of the Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto, since 2009.

_{CREDITS
Direction, text, dramaturgy and scenography: Igor Gandra Aesthetics: Eduardo Mendes Performers: Igor Gandra, Carla Veloso, Eduardo Mendes Video: Teatro de Ferro, Carlota Gandra Lighting design: Mariana Figueroa Building and assembling: Oficina do Teatro de Ferro com Marta Figueroa, Alexandre Moreira, Vitória Mendes Photography: Susana Neves Production: Carla Veloso / Teatro de Ferro Coproduction: Câmara Municipal do Porto - Programa Cultura em Expansão 2019, A Oficina / Centro Cultural Vila Flor - Programa de Educação e Mediação Cultural Company sponsored by: República Portuguesa - Ministério da Cultura | Direção-Geral das Artes}