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Table

Catarina Requeijo
November 6 to 17
fotografia de cena do espetáculo Mesa, onde vemos a atriz sentada a uma mesa iluminada com o restante palco às escuras.

Information

Families

November 9 and 16: 4:30 pm
November 10 and 17: 11:30 am and 4:30 pm

Schools

November 6, 7, 8, 13, 14 and 15: 10:30 am

Laidback session

November 17: 11:30 am

Age range

Suggested for +6

Running time

45min

Tickets

€3 for people under 18
€7 for people over 18
1€ Schools
Discounts available

Description

Table: noun, singular often attributive. Is it though?

Synopsis

A table is much more than that. It’s a place for infinite, individual and collective, actions.  At the table one writes, eats, talks, draws, operates, builds, celebrates, votes and rehearses.

Tables are made of several materials, in several sizes and shapes, but what really singles this object out is the way each one relates to it. There is no right or wrong, only different ways of looking at it. A table is a table, but it can always be something else!

This performance takes as starting point the book “Uma mesa é uma mesa. Será?” (“A table is a table. Is it though?”), published by Planeta Tangerina, and studies made in school context. It is aimed at children attending elementary school and it intends to explore this object,  in its utilitarian, symbolic and affective dimensions.

Throughout the show, two characters use the table to travel to the past, to the present, and to the future, invoking places of imagination and memory.

 

Photography: courtesy of Comédias do Minho

 

 

Cast and Creative

Staging
Catarina Requeijo

Text
Catarina Requeijo com excertos de José Eduardo Agualusa, Patrick Süskind e Lewis Carroll


Cast
Ana Valente e Victor Yovani

Scenography and costume design
Maria João Castelo

Light design
Vasco Ferreira

Research in school context, on the field of dramatic expression
Catarina Requeijo e Manuela Pedroso

Research in school context, on the field of philosophy
Rita Pedro

Coproduction
Comédias do Minho, Materiais Diversos e LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões