Do We Have the Right to Be Lazy?

Based on the idea that we need time for contemplation in our lives, and on Paul Lafargue’s O Direito à Preguiça (The Right to Laziness), this residency proposes a dive into the space and time of “stopping” in our daily lives. Despite the widespread negative idea of laziness – it is even considered one of the deadly sins – this residency aims to explore the urgent and precious need to “laze” as a possible respite from the productive excess to which, in one way or another, we are exposed. Do we live to work? Or do we work to live? How can we build a place and live it without limiting ourselves to the dimension of work in our lives? These days we need to review our ways of doing, being and being. For this to happen, we need to stop and contemplate, and consequently imagine another place. What space is there for life beyond work? Can territories also have the right to be lazy, so that they can reinvent themselves as places? 

On November 23rd, at a time to be announced, there will be a public presentation resulting from the participatory artistic residency. 

Conception and Artistic Direction Hugo Cruz
Musical Director Artur Carvalho 
Production Director Simone Almeida
Target audience Community in general, aged 10 and over

Free registration at participacao@theatrocirco.com

Support Portuguese Republic – Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts. RTCP – Network of Portuguese Theatres and Cinemas