• - © Susana Neves
  • - © Alípio Padilha
  • - © Gráficos do Futuro / Alípio Padilha

Dura Dita Dura

Synopsis

Dura Dita Dura is the story of a boy, Baltazar, that grows somewhere, in a small and lost countryplace of a forgotten Portugal – but tightly watched and self-watched. Baltazar is mute but not deaf. The brightness of his out of the deck juvenility manifestly conflicts with the obscurantism that characterizes the Portugal of the lilliputians. Baltazar is a scandal of silence in a silenced country. But we do not choose the place and the time where we are born.

Dura Dita Dura is a spectacle of performing objects suitable for all ages, about the atmosphere of deaf terror that reigned, during half of a century, in a country where the walls had ears. Through the attentive, sometimes astonished, view of a well beloved, but permeable to the dominant illness, child, it is intended to make known a past still near but that (nevertheless) tends to blur into the «cloudy mists of memory».


Dura Dita Dura is the story of a boy, Baltazar, that grows somewhere, in a small and lost countryplace of a forgotten Portugal - but tightly watched and self-watched. Baltazar is mute but not deaf. The brightness of his out of the deck juvenility manifestly conflicts with the obscurantism that characterizes the Portugal of the lilliputians. Baltazar is a scandal of silence in a silenced country. But we do not choose the place and the time where we are born.


«Once upon a time there was a little boy that lived in a little country turned to the great ocean. It was said that, in this country, big men and men of all sizes had launched themselves into the sea in a quest for other countries and for other men. But all that had happened so long ago that the boy which we are talking of had never wet his feet in the sea...»

-Regina Guimarães-
  • Acknowledgements
  • Amarante Abramovici
  • Tiago Afonso
  • Maio
  • Sr. José Pereira
  • J. P. Coimbra
  • Jorge Paupério - Somnorte
  • Deolinda Fernandes
  • Prazeres Rovisco
  • Mário Gandra
  • Inês Mamede
  • João Alves
  • Carlota Gandra
  • Matilde Gandra

Performances