Sonoscopia & Teatro de Ferro (Portugal)

CAPITAL CANIBAL

22 and 23 May at 9.30pm (Thu, Fri)

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_{Technique: Mixed Language: Portuguese Age guidance: +16 Runs: 30 min.}

“The crowds consume themselves as hors d'oeuvre, as a starter or a garnish. Those who put stains on their ties generally make delicious pâtés.” - Roland Topor

Cannibal Capital is an anachronistic and permanently short-circuited stage machine. Despite the efforts of its operators, who are themselves both food and fuel, the product always ends up being defective, oversupplied, useless and at the same time irresistible. Set in a place somewhere between a conference, an assembly of attractions with puppets and automatons and a variety show, Capital Canibal is a performance for those who have a strong stomach and a refined palate, but at the same time, it is very inclusive, since much like with processed food, even the worst parts can be used.

After Phobos and W, the two Porto collectives have joined hands once again together.

^{"Cannibal Capital: sausage-puppets, punk, lyrical singing and crushing capitalism.}

^{This dystopia by Teatro de Ferro and Sonoscopia uses cannibalism to reflect on how we are ‘forced to consume ourselves.’}

^{In this show, the protagonists are sausages. And political leaders (sausages that have risen to the top of the social pyramid) shout ‘long live war!’ in front of enthusiastic audiences. And cannibalism becomes common practice. And there's lyrical singing on one side of the musical spectrum and industrial, apocalyptic punk on the other (...). It proposes a reflection on how, on the great capitalist stage where we rehearse our lives on a daily basis, we are all being shredded - by work, by machines - like little sausages.” - Daniel Dias, Público}

BIO

Sonoscopia is an association for the creation, production and promotion of artistic and educational projects, centred on the areas of experimental music, sound research and its transdisciplinary intersections. Since its inception in 2011, it has produced more than 700 events, artistic creations, educational activities and publications in various parts of the world. Sonoscopia has a space located in Porto, with small studios equipped and prepared for the conception and production of creative and scientific work, residencies and informal presentations, and has hosted hundreds of artists from all over the world.

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. Igor Gandra is the artistic diretor of the Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto, since 2009.

_CREDITS

_{Artistic direction: Gustavo Costa, Igor Gandra Performers: Catarina Perdigão, Eduardo Mendes, Gustavo Costa, Igor Gandra Visual director: Eduardo Mendes Artistic supervision: Carla Veloso Video: Carlota Gandra Lighting design: Mariana Figueroa Sound operation: João Ricardo Construction workshop: Eduardo Mendes, Júlio Alves, Igor Gandra, Guilherme Vieira, Marta Figueroa (costumes) Production: Patrícia Craveiro, Carla Veloso Cocreated by: Sonoscopia & Teatro de Ferro Coproducer: Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto Company sponsored by: República Portuguesa - Cultura / DGArtes}

_{www.sonoscopia.pt | www.teatrodeferro.com}