I Request the Floor
• Teresa Coutinho
19 to 29 October 2023
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Age rating
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Schools:
19, 20, 25, 26 and 27 October: 10:30 AM
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Families:
21, 22, 28 and 29 October: 4:30 PM
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Sessions with Portuguese Sign Language:
27 October: 10:30 AM
28 October: 4:30 PM -
Laid-back Session:
29 October: 4:30 PM
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Age Rating:
12 years and above
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Target Audience:
Starting at 12 years
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Duration:
To be confirmed
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Schools Prices:
€3 < 18 years/ €1 +TEIP schools/ Chaperones are exempt
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Family Prices:
€3 < 18 years/ €7 > 18 years/ Discounts are applicable
What if teenagers could sit in Parliament?
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Creation and Text
Teresa Coutinho
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Performers
Alice Azevedo, Ana Valentim, Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro, Lúcia Pires, Mariana Guarda, Rafael Gomes and Roberto Terra
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Camera and video making
Lúcia Pires and Mariana Guarda
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Light Design
Pedro Nabais
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Video operation
Inês Paour
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Sound design
Lúcia Pires
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Costume Design
As Anónimas
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Choreography
Teresa Coutinho
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Movement Support
David Marques
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Executive Production and Technical Direction
Mariana Guarda
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Communication Coordination
Maria João Bilro
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Administrative Management
Janine Lages
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Financial Management
Vitor Alves Brotas
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Production
Agência 25
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Coproduction
LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões
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Support
República Portuguesa – Cultura | DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Casa-Atelier – Fundação Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva
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Residencies
Largo Residências, CAL – Primeiros Sintomas, O Rumo do Fumo
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Promotional photography
Bruno Simão
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Stage photography
Filipe Ferreira e Susana Chicó
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Acknowledgements
AUEEEU, Clara Mântua, Cleo Diára, Filipe Silva, Francisca Caeiro, João Estrada, Leonardo Garibaldi, LoboMau Produções, Mariana Reis, Miguel Cravo, Nuno Pinheiro, Rita Cruz, Rui Westerman, Sérgio Coragem e TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto
In I Request the Floor, a parliament is staged, a universal assembly, where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is debated. In a not-too-distant future, 2030, teenagers from all over the world are going to the streets to demand that this Declaration – the only document common to all nations – be truly applied.
In this parliament, which will be filmed and projected in real time, politics is called to get closer to young people and forced to rethink itself: if we were all teenagers once, what happens to that strength and will to change when we occupy positions of power?
Based on Article 1: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”, the MPs debate, between caricatures and epiphanies, the right to “be whoever we want to be” and the duty to respect ourselves and our specificities, with a focus on gender and identity matters.
With humor, the aim is to instigate and deepen our notion of the Other, in this great assembly that is, after all, the theater.
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