Marco Martins

A Colónia

Marco Martins

A Colónia

Based on an investigation by journalist Joana Pereira Bastos, director and filmmaker Marco Martins created a show about an unprecedented summer camp for the children of political prisoners, in 1972 in Caldas da Rainha. For two weeks, 18 children between the ages of 3 and 14, marked by their parents’ imprisonment and with a past of clandestinity and loneliness, learned for the first time to play together and in freedom. Marco Martins brings together a cast of children and some of the colony’s participants to work from personal stories and experiences and approach a broader reflection on history, memory, and oppression, in a play in which the legacy of the music of intervention is a fundamental aspect.

Marco Martins’ artistic work often arises from encounters with specific and peripheral communities with whom he develops long creative processes, in which the lives and stories of his performers become the basis of his creations. Far from so-called documentary theatre, each project involves a shared search for everyday poetry.

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05 DEC 2024
THU 21:00

06 DEC 2024
FRI 21:00

07 DEC 2024
SAT 19:00

08 DEC 2024
SUN 17:00

11 DEC 2024
WED 21:00

12 DEC 2024
THU 21:00

13 DEC 2024
FRI 21:00

14 DEC 2024
SAT 19:00

Buy Tickets
Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium
16€ (discounts)   Tickets with reduced visibility 10€ (discounts)
Duration 2h15
M/14

Schools
4 DEC
WED 3:00pm

Audiodescription and interpretation in Portuguese Sign Language
14 DEC
7:00pm

Stage recognition for people with visual impairments (blind and low vision)
14 DEC
6:00pm

 

Direction and dramaturgy

Marco Martins

Based on

an article by Joana Pereira Bastos and documents and testimonies from all the cast and works by Bertolt Brecht, Czeslaw Milosz, Deborah Levy, Filippo Marinetti, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Jean-Luc Godard/Anne Marie Miéville, Slavoj Zizek and William Shakespeare

Cast

Manuela Canais Rocha, Conceição Lopes, Conceição Matos, Domingos Abrantes, Humberto Candeias, Olga Sequeira Santos, Rita Veloso, Valentina Marcelino, João Pedro Vaz, Sara Carinhas, Ana Vilaça, Rodrigo Tomás and Anderson Ramos, Arthur Lupi, Beatriz Ribeiro, Diana Soares, Inês Paulino, Joaquim Queiroz, Laura Trueb, Leonardo Martins, Lurdes Ferraz, Milena Mavie, Niurka Sacramento, Pedro Conceição

Director’s assistant and dramaturgical support

Rita Quelhas

Research and director’s assistant support

Gaspar Nascimento

Research in Torre do Tombo

Gaspar Nascimento, Joana Pereira Bastos And Mariana Brandão

PIDE/DGS - Registo Geral De Presos, Images Courtesy Of Arquivo Nacional Torre Do Tombo

Music

B Fachada and João Pimenta Gomes

With

Coro Infantil e Juvenil Lisboa Cantat

Conductor

Jorge Carvalho Alves and Sílvio Cortez

Singers

Ada Roque, Alice Rocha, Luísa Melo, Luísa Sousa, Maria Leote, Rita Rocha, Sofia Reis, Sofia Santos, Vitória Francês

Light design

Nuno Meira

Set design

Isabel Cordovil, João Romão (xxxi.studio)

Project monitoring, stage construction and sponsorship

ARTWORKS

Sound design and operation

Vitor Santos

Technical direction

Pedro Moreira

Movement

Vânia Rovisco

Movement support

Hugo Marmelada

Object manipulation

Luís Vieira And Rute Ribeiro

Stand-in

Guilherme Arabolaza

Children's casting

Zé Pires

Based on an idea by

Marco Martins and Renzo Barsotti

Music and stage arts RTP

Isabel Roma

RTP Direction

Igor Martins

Videography RTP

Adelino Nogueira and Vítor Manuel Esteves

Editor RTP

Rui Pedro Nascimento

Photography

José Pedro Cortes and Tomás Vieira

Filming

Tomás Vieira

Teasers

Henrique Prudêncio and Rita Quelhas

Images from the film “48” courtesy of

Susana Sousa Dias/KINTOP

Booklet design 

Atelier Pedro Falcão

Arena Ensemble’s Managing Director

Marta Delgado Martins

Executive production

Joana Goldschmidt

Coordination and production direction

Mariana Brandão

Co-production

Culturgest, Teatro Nacional S. João, RTP-Rádio e Televisão de Portugal and Arena Ensemble

Support

Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita/Câmara Municipal Do Barreiro

Acknowledgements

Aida Rechena - Museu Nacional Resistência e Liberdade, Ana Pedro, Anna Eremin, António Maldonado Freitas, Associação Lopes-Graça, Casa Pia de Lisboa,  Cristina Nogueira, Escola Secundária de Camões, Escola Secundária Padre António Vieira, Elsa Pedro, Francisco Fanhais, Joana Carneiro Reis, Jorge Epifânio, Lyudmila Putilo, José Tavares Marcelino, Manuel Maria Candeias, Manuela Bernardino, Maria Almeida Nani, Maria José Matos, Margarida Lisboa, Ministério Dos Filmes, Ofélia Sequeira Santos, Pólo Cultural Gaivotas/Boavista, Rita Rato - Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade, Teresa Dias Coelho

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