Dates / Schedules
August 27th & 28th 2021 07:00pm
Castro (1598), a play by poet António Ferreira, marks the first incursion of Nuno Cardoso into a canonic piece of Portuguese theatre, Portugal’s first classical tragedy. He intends to inhabit this literary fiction, which itself offers a very particular version of the historical drama/legend/myth of star-crossed lovers Pedro and Inês, making us «see with other eyes». An immense stage-house-country confronts us with the tangible intimacy of characters that are in thrall to themselves and their intransigence. In Castro, like in Danton’s Death, the issue of utopia (as regards love, as well as revolution) plays a crucial role. Its dark reverse is exposed here: love/desire and power as addiction and chaos, as a blindness that «tarnishes/ The briliant rays of the ancient glory». And how that tarnishing impairs the powers of decision and replicates itself, tainting with blood and revenge the family’s fabric, via a peculiar dislocation of Castro’s focal point from Inês to Pedro’s mirror-like relationship with his father, King Afonso IV.
Ages
+12
Data sheet
Credits
By António Ferreira
Directed by Nuno Cardoso
Set design F. Ribeiro
Costumes Luís Buchinho
Lighting design José Álvaro Correia
Sound design João Oliveira
Video Fernando Costa
Voice Carlos Meireles
Movement Elisabete Magalhães
Dramaturgy and direction assistance Ricardo Braun
With Afonso Santos, Joana Carvalho, João Melo, Margarida Carvalho, Maria Leite, Mário Santos, Pedro Frias, Rodrigo Santos
Produced by Teatro Nacional São João
Sonoplastia João Oliveira
Vídeo Fernando Costa
Voz Carlos Meireles
Movimento Elisabete Magalhães
Dramaturgia e assistência de encenação Ricardo Braun
Com Afonso Santos, Joana Carvalho, João Melo, Margarida Carvalho, Maria Leite, Mário Santos, Pedro Frias, Rodrigo Santos
Produção Teatro Nacional São João
Prices and Discounts
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20% Discount on the purchase of 5 tickets (or more) for the same show
20% Discount on the purchase of 5 tickets (or more) for different shows
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20% for those aged under 25 and over 65 (anywhere in the hall, except the front stalls)
10% for holders of the FNAC card (valid in the Main Auditorium and Small Auditorium, for tickets purchased at sales points)
25% for customers of CP, after the checking of the CP tickets (for tickets purchased at sales points)
50% for unemployed persons, on presentation of official proof from IEFP (valid in the Main Auditorium and Small Auditorium, for tickets purchased at sales points)
30% for last minute tickets, Half an hour before the start, on the day of the actual performance
€5 for professionals/students involved in the production of the show or performance, students (this discount only applies to performances produced by the CCB and purchased at the CCB Box Office, and there are only a limited number of tickets available)
30% Discount for holders of the CCB Friend’s Card
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