When you return to a place where you were once happy, you find the echo of voices like ghosts.

Nearly two decades after being forced to leave the warehouse at the Miguel Bombarda Hospital, Teatro Praga has been invited by Teatro Nacional D. Maria II to temporarily reoccupy it for a performance as part of the company’s 30th anniversary celebrations. However, times have changed — interventions in the building and the city have altered both its context and architecture. Likewise, Teatro Praga is no longer the same Teatro Praga. This return without return sets the stage for its new production: Audição (Audition).

In this creation, Teatro Praga makes itself heard for what it was and what it is: a collective that exists both within and outside the idea of theatre, seeking a specific form of resistance in relation to spaces, bodies, and disciplines. Teatro Praga will always walk into the wrong show, and Audição is, therefore, a casting call where mistakes are inevitable—because what is being sought does not exist. With no age limits, physical requirements, or professional demands, this audition is bound to go wrong, and that is precisely the point. It is in the mismatch between expectation and the present, between past and future, that Audição takes shape.