Portugal
Dura Dita Dura
Museu da Marioneta
12, 13 May at 10.30am and 10pm
TEXT Regina Guimarães
DIRECTION AND SCENOGRAPHY Igor Gandra
PUPPETS Teatro de Ferro
MUSIC Michael Nick
PERFORMER Igor Gandra
FADO / SONG Ana Deus
LIGHT DESIGN Rui Maia
SET UP DIRECTOR Virgínia Moreira
CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP Gil Rovisco, Virgínia Moreira e Américo Castanheira – Tudo Faço
STAGE PHOTOGRAPHY Susana Neves
PRODUCTION DIRECTION Carla Veloso
TECHNIQUE Mixed
FOR AUDIENCES OVER M/6
LANGUAGE Portuguese
TIME 50 minutes
Co-production: FIMFA Lx9, Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto, Festival Escrita na Paisagem
“Once upon a time there was a little boy that lived in a very small country facing to big ocean. It was said that in this country, big men and men of all sizes had thrown themselves at the sea looking for other countries and other men. But this happen a very long time ago, so much time that the little boy that we are talking about never wet his feet in the ocean…”
“Dura Dita Dura” tells the story of a little boy, Baltazar, that grows somewhere, in a lost little village of a forgotten Portugal. Baltazar is mute, but not deaf. His vivacity is unusual for a little boy and conflicts with the obscurantism that characterizes little Portugal. Baltazar is a silence scandal in a silenced country. But nobody chooses the place and time where we to be born.
“Dura Dita Dura” is a show for all ages, about the atmosphere of deaf terror that ruled for half a century a country where the walls had hears. Through an attentive look of small child, the objective is to show a very recent past, that tends however to fade in the “memory mists”. To us, this purpose seems to become urgent as there are people that now and everywhere are saying that the Salazar dictatorship was not that bad.
The Teatro de Ferro develops its work since 1999, in the universe of puppetry, movement and multimedia. Since 2003 has counted with the support of the Ministry of Culture. The company is located in the city of Gaia, with artistic direction of Igor Gandra, who received the award Revelação Ribeiro da Fonte, attributed by the Instituto das Artes.