Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro e Isabel Costa / Os Possessos

Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro e Isabel Costa / Os Possessos

Burn Burn Burn

Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro e Isabel Costa / Os Possessos

Burn Burn Burn

A group of strangers gather in a public library to participate in a book club. As so many other moments in the history of humanity, books are considered dangerous and are prohibited. The resistance, of which this group is a part of, is armed with an invisible weapon: learning books by heart. They use memory and the ability to know by heart as a tool in the face of the threat of the disappearance of books and literature.

How can literature fight against the polarised narratives that plague the world we live in? Based on Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, Burn Burn Burn tells us about the erasure of history and the annihilation of critical thinking. As a starting point for recurring and cyclical phenomena in the history of Humanity, this show aims to reflect on the distracting maneuvers of extremism to brutalise and polarise society.

© Filipe Ferreira.

30 OCT 2025
THU 21:00

31 OCT 2025
FRI 21:00

01 NOV 2025
SAT 19:00

Buy Tickets
Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium
14€ (discounts)
Duration Aprox. 2h
M/12

English subtitles
31 NOV
FRI

Audiodescription and interpretation in Portuguese Sign Language
1 NOV
SAT 

Stage recognition for people with visual impairments (blind and low vision) at 6.00pm

Schools session
3 NOV
MON 11:00am

Text and staging

Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro e Isabel Costa

Interpretation

Beatriz Brás, Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro, Isabel Costa, João Pedro Mamede, João Pedro Vaz, Leonardo Garibaldi, Leonor Buescu, Tomás Alves

Scenography

Joana Subtil 

Light design

Manuel Abrantes

Sound design

Miguel Nicolau

Executive production

Joana Silva

Photography

Filipe Ferreira 

Production

Os Possessos e Culturgest

Co-production

Teatro-Cine Torres Vedras 

Support

Câmara Municipal de Lisboa - Pólo Cultural das Gaivotas

Artist residencies

Rama, Centro de Artes e Criatividade - Torres Vedras e Espaço do Tempo

Os Possessos is a structure financed by República Portuguesa — Cultura / DGArtes

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