Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro e Isabel Costa / Os Possessos
Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro e Isabel Costa / Os Possessos
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.
30 OCT 2025
THU 21:00
31 OCT 2025
FRI 21:00
01 NOV 2025
SAT 19:00
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