Rehab
2017
Synopsis
Dear audience,
this is not a love letter. And certainly not a war letter. It is not even a real letter. It is an unfinished performance. But what were we thinking? Everybody knows that a performance must not be left unfinished. That is why I need you. (cries) But I need you to change. (continues crying) I miss you so much…if only you knew! (cries even more) I will never learn how to write this text if you refuse to read it.
AESTETIC**----GOIU----REL--H--ACCIÓN*+++++CHOI+++++PUB-- --«««««%%EA%%%$ $”””1”#$%&/()=?»W*C* *AIUOESCOIEJHESEACOU! Here you have a disruptive speech! (smiles) Today we are going to change positions. I am tired of loving myself and nostalgia is stale. (smiles more and kills someone) Today we will reconfigure and redefine. To love another place – to inhabit a new one. Body, place. (gets married)
No more anachronism. In this performance, nothing and no one is private, not even new relationships or unrecognizable places. (lays down and scratches his groin) I very much want to see you and I want you to see me. I want to see if you have already grown up. If you have emancipated yourself, you know what I mean? (kisses a swan) Voyeurism always wins, doesn’t it? The black mirror you look at sees and scrutinizes you – it watches you. Become an image and transform into a mirage. You are a product of masturbation who is being used as cannon fodder. (undresses a rain-coloured dress)
Rehab, baby, is the sound of a mutual score: us. To be or not to be is not chorus anymore. Play it. Touch me and then we can get angry at each other. Touch me and run away. Let’s end this binomial. (gets divorced) In fact, let’s enlarge it. In lilac. In blue. In silver. In green. In every colour. (a marisol curtain descends from the stage grid). Dear audience, you and I have only one name for our multiple existences, a third gender: Rehab. (✔)
Trailer
Credits
Conception and Direction
Ana Sampaio e Maia, Cátia Tomé, Ivo Saraiva e Silva, Ricardo Teixeira
Video
João Cristóvão Leitão
Voice-over
Tiago Mansilha
Costumes and Props
João Silva
Romantic Period Costume
Vicente Trindade
Lighting Design Collaboration
Carolina Caramelo
Technical Support
Manuel Abrantes
Stage Photography
Alípio Padilha
Communication
Rita Tomás
Production
SillySeason
Support
Fundação GDA , Cão Solteiro, Copianço, MTConsulting, O Espaço do Tempo, Polo Cultural Gaivotas - Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Rua das Gaivotas6, Confederação
Premiere
Teatro da Trindade
(Lisboa, PT)
April 2017
Reprise
Confederação
(Porto, PT)
September 2017
Rua das Gaivotas 6
(Lisboa, PT)
September 2017
Rehab
2017
Synopsis
Dear audience,
this is not a love letter. And certainly not a war letter. It is not even a real letter. It is an unfinished performance. But what were we thinking? Everybody knows that a performance must not be left unfinished. That is why I need you. (cries) But I need you to change. (continues crying) I miss you so much…if only you knew! (cries even more) I will never learn how to write this text if you refuse to read it.
AESTETIC**----GOIU----REL--H--ACCIÓN*+++++CHOI+++++PUB-- --«««««%%EA%%%$ $”””1”#$%&/()=?»W*C* *AIUOESCOIEJHESEACOU! Here you have a disruptive speech! (smiles) Today we are going to change positions. I am tired of loving myself and nostalgia is stale. (smiles more and kills someone) Today we will reconfigure and redefine. To love another place – to inhabit a new one. Body, place. (gets married)
No more anachronism. In this performance, nothing and no one is private, not even new relationships or unrecognizable places. (lays down and scratches his groin) I very much want to see you and I want you to see me. I want to see if you have already grown up. If you have emancipated yourself, you know what I mean? (kisses a swan) Voyeurism always wins, doesn’t it? The black mirror you look at sees and scrutinizes you – it watches you. Become an image and transform into a mirage. You are a product of masturbation who is being used as cannon fodder. (undresses a rain-coloured dress)
Rehab, baby, is the sound of a mutual score: us. To be or not to be is not chorus anymore. Play it. Touch me and then we can get angry at each other. Touch me and run away. Let’s end this binomial. (gets divorced) In fact, let’s enlarge it. In lilac. In blue. In silver. In green. In every colour. (a marisol curtain descends from the stage grid). Dear audience, you and I have only one name for our multiple existences, a third gender: Rehab. (✔)
Trailer
Credits
Conception and Direction
Ana Sampaio e Maia, Cátia Tomé, Ivo Saraiva e Silva, Ricardo Teixeira
Video
João Cristóvão Leitão
Voice-over
Tiago Mansilha
Costumes and Props
João Silva
Romantic Period Costume
Vicente Trindade
Lighting Design Collaboration
Carolina Caramelo
Technical Support
Manuel Abrantes
Stage Photography
Alípio Padilha
Communication
Rita Tomás
Production
SillySeason
Support
Fundação GDA , Cão Solteiro, Copianço, MTConsulting, O Espaço do Tempo, Polo Cultural Gaivotas - Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Rua das Gaivotas6, Confederação
Premiere
Teatro da Trindade
(Lisboa, PT)
April 2017
Reprise
Confederação
(Porto, PT)
September 2017
Rua das Gaivotas 6
(Lisboa)
Setembro 2017
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