Dolls
2020
A theatre play made for television
Synopsis
A doll’s house is transformed into a maze of mirrors, where history lingers and tends to repeat itself. The performers strive to assume a role, an identity, but the house expands to infinity and makes everything vast and identical at the same time. Therefore, bags are packed, and home is left behind in an immense escape. History, Art, and Art History are one and the same: a homely tragedy.
Based on the 1979 play by Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House, Dolls proposes a scenic mechanism used for recording the making of a television series, while testing the identities of the performers and the liquidity of the narrative. Dolls represents History that acts, not the classic as it is remembered.
Promo
Integral show
Credits
Text and Stage Direction
Ivo Saraiva e Silva
Performance
Cátia Tomé, Ivo Saraiva e Silva, Ricardo Teixeira, Sérgio de Brito, Vítor Silva Costa
Scenography, Props and Costumes
Inês Ariana
Additional Costumes
João Telmo
Installation “Nuvens”
João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira
Music
Ricardo Remédio
Choreography
Rodrigo Teixeira
Video
João Lobo
Lighting Design
Manuel Abrantes
Photography
João Covas (RTP)
Production
Ricardo Teixeira and Céu Pinto (RTP)
Direction
Adriano Nazareth (RTP)
Co-production
RTP – Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
Support
APAV, Associação ILGA Portugal, Cão Solteiro, Groove Ball, Junta de Freguesia de Astromil, Teatro do Elétrico
Premiere
RTP2
January 2020
Dolls
2020
Uma peça de teatro para televisão
Synopsis
A doll’s house is transformed into a maze of mirrors, where history lingers and tends to repeat itself. The performers strive to assume a role, an identity, but the house expands to infinity and makes everything vast and identical at the same time. Therefore, bags are packed, and home is left behind in an immense escape. History, Art, and Art History are one and the same: a homely tragedy.
Based on the 1979 play by Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House, Dolls proposes a scenic mechanism used for recording the making of a television series, while testing the identities of the performers and the liquidity of the narrative. Dolls represents History that acts, not the classic as it is remembered.
Promo
Integral show
Credits
Text and Stage Direction
Ivo Saraiva e Silva
Performance
Cátia Tomé, Ivo Saraiva e Silva, Ricardo Teixeira, Sérgio de Brito, Vítor Silva Costa
Scenography, Props and Costumes
Inês Ariana
Additional Costumes
João Telmo
Installation “Nuvens”
João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira
Music
Ricardo Remédio
Choreography
Rodrigo Teixeira
Video
João Lobo
Lighting Design
Manuel Abrantes
Photography
João Covas (RTP)
Production
Ricardo Teixeira and Céu Pinto (RTP)
Direction
Adriano Nazareth (RTP)
Co-production
RTP – Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
Support
APAV, Associação ILGA Portugal, Cão Solteiro, Groove Ball, Junta de Freguesia de Astromil, Teatro do Elétrico
Premiere
RTP2
January 2020
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