There is a Molière who suddenly crosses the path of Teatro da Garagem. A happy anomaly, if we consider that the company does not practice repertoire theater, basing its artistic identity on the texts of the playwright and director Carlos J. Pessoa. And why Moliere? And why Tartuffe (1664), a meditation on lies and hypocrisy, but also on the essence of theatre, that infernal machine for producing imposture? With Tartufo, Teatro da Garagem invites the spectator to revisit a classic text, here in the translation of the poet Regina Guimarães, with the modesty of someone who learns to read again, encouraging us to build bridges between the past, the present and the future. “When are we most deceived? When are we tartufos or when are we tartufados?” asks Carlos J. Pessoa. In a show of text and actors, the director looks at Molière's classic and discovers an ignoble theater that runs in the blood of all the characters. A theater where there are neither heroes nor villains, but creatures that produce and fight pestilence, immersed in the paranoia of cleaning or purifying themselves. “Are we doomed to poisoning by tartuice?”

 
Cast and Crew List:

 

Text Molière

Direction and light design Carlos J. Pessoa

Scenography by Sérguo Loureiro

Music and sound composition by Daniel Cervantes

Videio and subtitling by Daniel Cervantes

Costumes by Sérgio Loureiro

Acting Ana Palma, Joana Raio, Miguel Damião, Paula Só, Sérgio Silva, Susana Blazer

Light operations André Mateus

Photografy Carlos Porfírio and Vitorino Coragem

Communication by José Grilo

Video by Vitorino Coragem

Head of production Raquel Matos

Executive production Mafalda Ferraz

 

With support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, EGEAC, Junta de Freguesia de Santa Maria Maior

Financed by Direção-Geral das Artes, Governo de Portugal | Ministério da Cultura

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