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Niet Hebben (Rejected Letter)

Crista Alfaiate
February 5 and 6

Information

February 5, 10.30am
February 6, 4.30pm

Spoken in Portuguese, no subtitle
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Age range

+12
Appropriate theme for secondary school students

Running time

50 min

Description

Niet Hebben will make its return to the stage at 2023, for now it will be shown online.

Synopsis

From well-known texts such as Pero Vaz de Caminha’s Brazil’s Birth Certificate: The Letter, Kafka’s Letter to His Father, Oscar Wilde’s Letter to Bosie, Mariana Alcoforado’s Portuguese Letters and The New Portuguese Letters by Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa, among others, this rejected letter seeks to rethink some subjects such as feminism, war and post-colonialism in a world ruled by Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. On stage, like, there’s this actress, willing to write a letter like she talks. As she talks. Blaming herself for going through other people’s correspondence, she thinks about some of the letters she unduly and secretly read when she could’ve just scrolled on Instagram or taken selfies. This can be either a speech, a hunch, or an email, fearless of the past, with eyes set on the future.

 

Photography: LU.CA/Alípio Padilha

Cast and Creative

Creation and interpretation
Crista Alfaiate

Text
Diogo Bento e Crista Alfaiate

Creation support
Cláudia Gaiolas e Diogo Bento

Lighting design
Rui Monteiro

Lighting design assistant
Teresa Antunes

Original score
Sérgio Martins e Rui Lima

Sound design
Pedro Lima e João Monteiro

Direction
Paulo Cunha Martins

Graphic and visual content
Catarina Lee

Costume design
Aldina Jesus

Executive production
Joana Costa Santos e Luna Rebelo

Coproduction
LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões e TNSJ – Teatro Nacional São João

Support
Fundação GDA e Largo Residências