A limestone sphere weighing half a tonne, five auéééu actors, sculptor Fernando Roussado, quinces that come from Víctor Erice, blocks of time and other eye-catching stuff: this show ventures the encounter and interference between the space of sculpture and the body of theatre. The audience will know as much as those on stage. Or almost. Principles of rationality, certainty and achievement are challenged; control, hierarchy and hegemony are countered; the game is about turning our back on what was just created and go on searching, claiming the freedom of risk and of the abyss.
Credits
Creation and Production
auéééu
With
Fernando Roussado, Frederico Barata, Filipe Velez, João Luís Silva, Joana Manaças, Miguel Cunha, Sérgio Coragem.
Creation Support
Beatriz Brás, Statt Miller, David Antunes, Francisco Luís Parreira.
Light design and operation
Daniel Worm d’Assumpção
Scenography
Fernando Roussado
Costumes and props
Statt Miller
Image
Filipe Andrade
Executive Production
auéééu
Movie Recording
Tiago Rosa-Rosso
Creation Residency
O Espaço do Tempo, Materiais Diversos, Centro Cultural Vila-Flor
Co-Production
EGEAC/Teatro do Bairro Alto and O Espaço do Tempo
Support
Livraria Ferin
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auéééu, a company founded in 2014 by 9 actors, was born from the desire to think about creation as a collective, on an horizontal power relationship in which diversity and chaos are valued in their artistic construction processes. Allying a political thought, their shows opt for the creation of a dramaturgy and writing for the scene of their own authorship.
With a multidisciplinary aesthetic language, whose experimentation is based on literary, philosophical, cinematographic and performative research, the company seeks to design meeting territories through what one can name as “sensitive body“ – a body that feels and thinks while writing. Aware of this scenic game, they use reality within fiction and fiction within reality.
auéééu have presented their creations in various venues across the country, notably F – TNDMII and SãoLuizTM, O Desprezo – CCB, A Nossa Cidade, by Thornton Wilder, collective creation auéééu, Os Possessos and Teatro da Cidade -TBA and T. Viriato, Falta Tinta Vermelha – CCB, Tradição – TNDMII.