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A show is about to start on a small stage placed on the stage itself. The few spectators facing the small stage are waiting. After some time, an announcement is heard:

THE SHOW IS BEING CANCELLED DUE TO LOW ATTENDANCE. PLEASE LEAVE THE THEATRE.

Silence and emptiness being perceived as condensed space will become a fertile ground for creative relationships. Their growing dissatisfaction will lead to a desire for disobedience and a refusal to leave the theatre. Triggered by their own expectations, the spectator-performers will innocently start, from a guessing game, to conjecture fantasies about what the cancelled play would be like and will reinvent the space, transforming its topography. From a waiting room, the space will be transformed into a room of action; a transitory space, unexpected and full of twists and turns, where the dramaturgy will be woven on the possibilities.

Credits

Creation and Performance
Anthi Kougia and Mafalda Miranda Jacinto

Dramaturgy and Performance Support
João Estevens

Light Design
Vera Martins

Sound design and voice-off
Diogo Melo

Scenography and Visual composition support
Bruno José Silva

Promotional Image
Manón Yanes Saénz

Teaser
Joana de Sousa

Press
Élia Teixeira

Production
Rabbit Hole

Residency Support
Visitors (GR), TRUST (Arganil, PT), Forum Dança, O Espaço do Tempo, Electronic Warfare, PENHA SCO.

Support
Fundação GDA, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

MAFALDA MIRANDA JACINTO (Lisboa, 1989) is a performance maker and visual artist. As a creator oriented towards a visual language, Mafalda privileges the creation of moving images as a means to explore the surreal in reality. Her works and collaborations have already had the opportunity to be presented in Portugal, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany and Greece. In her professional career, she assumed commitments and collaborations with several artistic structures either as a producer (highlighting the structure Bomba Suicida) or as the main and only responsible for communication and design of Rua das Gaivotas 6 and Teatro Praga.

ANTHI KOUGIA was born in Athens in 1989. She is a theatre & performance maker and since 2015 she works as creator, director and dramaturge. Her work has been presented in the UK, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Portugal and Italy. Recently, she completed her first collaboration with the Greek National Opera with the queer opera Orfeas2021 conceived by FYTA. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2020). Regarding her artistic practice, the visual environment plays a significant role in her performance pieces. She works with speech, movement, sound, video and almost always in collaboration with other artists.
Keywords of her performance practice that keep appearing in her pieces are the following: waiting room, change of given perspectives, distortion, absurdity, the invisible, absence, irony, kitsch and entertainment.

Mafalda Jacinto & Anthi Kougia

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