Prado de Fundo
2016
Synopsis
I bought a frame, but only afterwards took a picture. It is a matter of trust. A frame can be trusted, a picture cannot…
SillySeason drew inspiration from the 1903’s play by Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, to create Prado de Fundo, through which they seek to explore photography and its soothing representative power that desperately confirms the veracity of the events they have experienced. Even the ones that did not really occur. In Prado de Fundo, the infallibility of memory and the documents used in theatrical acts is questioned. It is as if revealing the hidden corners of a framed photography. Is it something less real merely because we are not able to see it?
Trailer
Credits
Creation and Performance
Ana Sampaio e Maia, Cátia Tomé, Ivo Saraiva e Silva, Ricardo Teixeira, Rita Morais
Creation and Video
João Cristóvão Leitão
Lighting Design
Sara Garrinhas
Communication
Tiago Mansilha
Production
SillySeason
Photography
Alípio Padilha, Rui Palma
Support
Artistas Unidos, Cão Solteiro, CCVF, geniSa duArte Couture, O Espaço do Tempo, Polo Cultural das Gaivotas – Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Rua das Gaivotas6, Teatro Praga
Financed by
Direcção-Geral das Artes, Fundação GDA
Premiere
Mala Voadora (Porto, PT)
April 2016
Reprise
Teatro da Politécnica
(Lisboa, PT)
May 2016
Teatro Sá da Bandeira
(Santarém, PT)
June 2016
Cine Teatro Raimundo Magalhães (Vila Meã, PT)
December 2016
Prado de Fundo
2016
Synopsis
I bought a frame, but only afterwards took a picture. It is a matter of trust. A frame can be trusted, a picture cannot…
SillySeason drew inspiration from the 1903’s play by Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, to create Prado de Fundo, through which they seek to explore photography and its soothing representative power that desperately confirms the veracity of the events they have experienced. Even the ones that did not really occur. In Prado de Fundo, the infallibility of memory and the documents used in theatrical acts is questioned. It is as if revealing the hidden corners of a framed photography. Is it something less real merely because we are not able to see it?
Trailer
Credits
Creation and Performance
Ana Sampaio e Maia, Cátia Tomé, Ivo Saraiva e Silva, Ricardo Teixeira, Rita Morais
Creation and Video
João Cristóvão Leitão
Lighting Design
Sara Garrinhas
Communication
Tiago Mansilha
Production
SillySeason
Photography
Alípio Padilha, Rui Palma
Support
Artistas Unidos, Cão Solteiro, CCVF, geniSa duArte Couture, O Espaço do Tempo, Polo Cultural das Gaivotas – Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Rua das Gaivotas6, Teatro Praga
Financed by
Direcção-Geral das Artes, Fundação GDA
Premiere
Mala Voadora (Porto, PT)
April 2016
Reprise
Teatro da Politécnica
(Lisboa, PT)
May 2016
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