In Person

An immense humanity permeates the words of Fernando Pessoa, poet and leading thinker of our literature. Imbued with memory and dreams, with daily lives filled with gestures that are ultimately futile, yet survive the eternal time of the world; vital words of an initiatory wonder that lays bare the absurdity of life and death beneath the relentless layer of artistic impulse.

This show focuses on the process/drama of artistic creation as a terrain for the search for identity; letters, voices, multiple bodies, distinct in the forms of Caeiro, Campos and Reis, seek to affirm their originality and their difference, but, as we know, their entire meaning comes together in the complex and unnameable universe of a single, fragmented Pessoa.

In body-present, on stage, will it be possible to rescue these dazzling sparks of lucidity and creation, timeless nourishment? We hope so.