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Events | 'Medeia' returns to the stage in July at the Paulo Quintela Theatre.
Following its successful season at the Teatro de Bolso of TEUC in March 2024, 'Medeia' will be performed on July 16th at 8h30 pm at the Paulo Quintela Theatre of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra. This performance is part of the FESTEA – International Festival of Classical Theme Theatre. The show results from research conducted by Gustavo Afonso, a doctoral student at INET-md, on piano and incidental music by Victor Macedo Pinto.
This performance aims to recreate the myth of Medea, reviving Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira's historical translation of Euripides' text, which will be juxtaposed with the depiction of the Rio de Janeiro suburbs under Brazil's 1970s military dictatorship, as presented by Chico Buarque and Paulo Pontes in Gota d’Água, and the post-Cold War destruction described by Heiner Müller in Medea material. The performance will engage in a dialogue between the incidental music composed by Macedo Pinto for Medea's 1950s performances and Buarque's music featured in Gota d’Água, combining live performance with pre-recorded media.
The cast includes Catarina Martins, Cristina Valente, Ana de Sousa, and Thales Luz, accompanied by musicians Gustavo Afonso (piano), Irina Camões (flute), and Ismael Silva (percussion). Sound design will be by Tatiana Almeida and technical direction by Diogo Lobo.
The performance will return to the stage on July 16th at 8h30 pm at the Paulo Quintela Theatre, in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra. It is included in the program of FESTEA – the International Festival of Classical Theme Theatre. Admission is free and open to the public.
