MACBAD
• Teatro Praga
15 to 19 March 2023
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Age rating
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Schools:
15 March: 2.30 pm
16 e 17 March: 10.30 am -
Families:
18 and 19 March: 4.30 pm
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Laid-back session:
19 March: 4.30 pm
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Age rating:
6 years and above
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Target Audience:
Starting at 8 years
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Duration:
75 min
What happens when a classic literature work meets a videogame?
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Text and creation
Cláudia Jardim, Diogo Bento and Pedro Penim
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Performance
Cláudia Jardim, Diogo Bento
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Videogame Programming
Filipe Baptista
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Costume Design
Teresa Louro
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Production Management
Marisa F. Fálcon
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Executive production
Rita Pessoa
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Promotional photography
Alípio Padilha
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Coproduction
LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões e Oficina – Centro Cultural Vila Flor
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Acknowledgement
Beatriz Carneiro, Catarino Campino, Maria Sequeira Mendes, Mariana Sá Nogueira, Rita Telhada, Ricardo Santos Costa, Ruben Maia
MACBAD is the third project of a series of performances by Teatro Praga, devoted to the younger audience and inspired by the English playwright William Shakespeare’s masterpieces.
This time, Teatro Praga throws itself to one of the playwriter’s cursed plays, Macbeth: the “Scottish play” that features a trio of witches and their prophecies.
In this story, the hero and villain Macbeth is called MacBad – as the real bad guy he is – and he will fulfill the three witches’ prophecies while trying to run away from them. The spectator is the protagonist and a gamer, who makes sure that the story ends. To do so, the performance resources to mechanisms inspired by famous role-playing game systems, such as Dungeons & Dragons and Game Centers. So there will be several games-within-the-game, and everything will converge so that the prophecies come true despite everything.
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