This family kills fascists. It’s a tradition that everyone in the family has followed for over 70 years. They’ve all got together today in a house in the country near a village called Baleizão in the south of Portugal. One of youngest members of the family, Catarina, is to kill her first fascist, who has … Continued
After Oedipus Rex, the SillySeason collective returns to Theatro Circo with the play Antigone to revisit Sophocles’ tragedy and question the discretionary power of the State and the fragility of the dreams of contemporary youth. Antigone, Polynices and Haemon appear as young people of today, sometimes forgotten, sometimes condemned by policies that exclude and silence … Continued
Arménio is a person’s name, but it is also the name of a people. Armenia is the name of a language, but it is also a person’s name. Armenian, who is not called Arménio, tells his family’s story in Armenian, but no one understands his language. Armenia, who is not Armenian and has never been … Continued
A dancer who couldn’t dance, a singer who couldn’t sing, an actor who couldn’t act, a writer who couldn’t write, a painter who couldn’t paint. A dancer who sang, a writer who painted, an actor who wrote. One had to know how to do in order to know how to be. As long as the … Continued
Búzio is Ana Baptista’s latest creation, premiering at Theatro Circo, as part of Supracasa, a programme supporting artistic creation in the performing arts. Based on research into seaside tourism and its seasonal experience in a coastal area, Ana Baptista guides us through a humorous and provocative work of autofiction. The show, divided into two parts, … Continued
On a stage where darkness is not absence, but a territory for creation, Alvorada is born, a show that delves into the dreamlike universe of people who have been blind since birth. Between humour and lyricism, the play toys with the limitations of language, with the misconceptions of description and with the autonomy of the … Continued
In the year that Braga is Portuguese Capital of Culture, Theatro Circo and gnration host the 2025 edition of Cenários, a programme of reflection by the D. Maria II National Theatre. The first edition, in 2023, featured three conferences, designed to reflect on the journey of the National Odyssey, which began that same year with … Continued
In December 2024, while Marco Martins was considering adapting Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, focusing on the conflict between the individual and the collective, the PSP carried out a controversial police operation on Rua do Benformoso in Lisbon. Around 60 immigrants, mainly from Bangladesh, were forced to stand against a wall with their … Continued
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