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Marlene Monteiro Freitas

9:30 p.m. Main Room

12€ / Pentágono Card 6€ Ages 12+

Inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, Marlene Monteiro’s NÔT presents itself as a miniature performance conceived for vast spaces, bounded by one wall of people and another of stones. On this unique stage unfolds a fable built upon an accumulation of tales — stories of love, war, journeys, and beasts — that serve as weapons of survival in a duel against a petrified heart.

These tales-of-lament honor the absent and explore dichotomies such as life and death, imprisonment and freedom, reality and desire. Through an imaginary mirror that multiplies and projects the enchantment, the stage transforms, layer by layer, into shadows and scents. Between those who listen and those who narrate, NÔT evokes the urgency of storytelling as a vital act of resistance, survival, and transformation, where each narrative unfolds infinitely into another.

Credits

Choreography Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Choreography assistance Francisco Rolo
Cast Ben Green, Henri “Cookie” Lesguillier, Joãozinho da Costa, Mariana Tembe, Marie Albert, Miguel Filipe, Rui Paixão and Tomás Moital
Set design Yannick Fouassier and MMF
Lighting and technical direction Yannick Fouassier
Lighting operation João Chicó
Costume design Marlene Monteiro Freitas and Marisa Escaleira
Sound Rui Antunes
Stage direction Ana Luísa Novais
Artistic consult João Figueira, Martin Valdés-Stauber
Production and distribution P.OR.K
Co-production Festival d’Avignon, Berliner Festspiele, International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Culturgest, MC2 Maison de la Culture de Grenoble Scène nationale, Le Quartz Scène nationale, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand Scène nationale, Maison de la danse Lyon Pôle européen de création, Parc de la Villette, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, PACT Zollverein, Comédie de Genève, La Bâtie de Genève
Support Dançando com a Diferença and Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
Residencies O Espaço do Tempo, Alkantara and OPART/Estúdios Vítor Cordon

NÔT’s dramaturgical research was supported by Onassis AiR in 2025.

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Support Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sport / Directorate-General for the Arts / Portuguese Contemporary Art Network (RPAC) / Portuguese Network of Theatres and Cineteatros (RTCP) | BPI ‘La caixa’ Foundation