“DURA DITA DURA” TEATRO DE FERRO - Portugal
Direction, Scenography and Performer: Igor GandraConstruction Workshop: Gil Rovisco, Virgínia Moreira e Américo Castanheira – Tudo Faço
Schedule: 12th and 13th May at 10.30am and 10pmFor audiences over: 6 years oldTime: 50 minutesLanguage: PortugueseTechnique: Mixed
Co-production: FIMFA Lx9, Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto, Festival Escrita na Paisagem
“Once upon a time there was a little boy that lived in a very small country turned to the big ocean. It was said that in this country, big men and men of all sizes had throw themselves through the sea looking for another countries and other men. But this happen a very long time ago, at so much time ago that the little boy that we are talking about never wet his feet in the ocean…”
“Dura Dita Dura” it’s the story of a little boy, Baltazar, that grows somewhere, in a lost little village in a forgotten Portugal – but very watched and auto-watched. Baltazar is mute, but not deaf. His vivacity of a little boy out of the normal manifestly conflicts with the obscurantism that characterizes Portugal of the little ones. Baltazar it’s a silence scandal in a silenced country. But nobody chooses the place and time where we can born.
“Dura Dita Dura” it’s a show for all ages about the atmosphere of deaf terror that ruled about half century in a country where the walls had hears. Through a attentive look, sometimes struck, of a very loved child but permeable to the dominant malaise, the objective is to show a very near past, that tends however to fade in the “memory mists”. This purpose seems to us to be urgent, at least because there are people that now and everywhere are saying that the Salazar dictatorship was not so bad.
Ciclo: FIMFA LX9 – International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms