Alex Cassal / Má-Criação
Alex Cassal / Má-Criação
Among all possible destinations of a hypothetical journey through time and space, the protagonist of Hotel Paradoxo chooses to return to the summer of 2009 in Lisbon. There are conflicts in the Gaza Strip and nuclear tests in Korea. An Air France plane mysteriously disappears over the Atlantic Ocean. And on the day of one of the greatest solar eclipses of the 21st century, two strangers meet by chance and spend the night together in a hotel. At dawn, they part ways, never to meet again.
It is a journey on an intimate scale, with small detours through quantum beaches overlooking the Big Bang and rocky retreats in a distant, lifeless future. A hybrid experience of theatre, cinema, and astrophysics, designed to take place in a planetarium, beneath the dome of the projection room, as if we were gazing at a sky full of stars.
21 MAY 2026
THU 19:00, 22:00
22 MAY 2026
FRI 19:00, 22:00
23 MAY 2026
SAT 19:00, 22:00
10€ (fixed price)
Duration 50min.
M/12
Text and staging
Alex Cassal
Interpretation
Marco Mendonça
Original music
Felipe Rocha
Sound design
Suse Ribeiro
Project monitoring
Paulo Pereira (IA/Planetário do Porto)
Immersive video
Filipe Pires (Planetário do Porto)
Costume
Miss Suzie
Lighting consultancy
Tomás Ribas
Support for dramaturgy
Joana Frazão
Artistic collaboration
Paula Diogo
Scientific consultancy
João J. G. Lima (IA/FCUP)
Photography
Má-Criação
Project management
Paula Diogo e Daniela Ribeiro
Executive production
Má-Criação e Ricardo Arenga
Co-production
Má-Criação, Culturgest, Planetário do Porto – Centro Ciência Viva / Universidade do Porto e Festival Temps d’Images
Support
mala voadora, Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa – Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade de Lisboa e Escola do Largo
Residences
CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, O Espaço do Tempo, CEA/Moita, Biblioteca de Alcântara – José Dias Coelho e Amarelo Silvestre
Acknowledgements
Abílio Marcos, Ana Gomes dos Santos, Clara Sousa-Silva, Cristina Planas Leitão, Eduardo Molina, Fernando Giestas, Jorge Andrade, José Capela, Maria Jorge, Madalena Venâncio, Mafalda Miranda Jacinto, Marco Paiva/Terra Amarela, Mariana Ferreira, Mariana Brandão, Miguel Arenga, Dr. Miguel Teixeira, Pedro Machado, Rafaela Santos, Rui Horta
Funding
República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direção Geral das Artes e Fundo Cultural - GDA
