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MARTA BONITO
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PERFORMING ARTS

Chaimite, a possible musical
Francisco and Maria are two young lovers from Santa Leocádia. Fascinated by the world of cinema, they dream of a future outside their homeland. He is doing his military service. She is buying her baby clothes. But Guinea will separate the young couple. Fifty years later, we still ask: can love win over war?

Rottweiler Vs Chihuahua
In a world where misinformation and hate speech thrive, who defines the limits of violence? The victims? The perpetrators? What is violence, after all? The “Rottweiler” question is back, this time with democratic intentions. But aren’t they just the same dogs with different collars?

Caxias' Nights
Two women who lived intensely during the dictatorship. Leninha, the most feared and powerful female figure in the Portuguese political police: the PIDE; and one of the victims who suffered most at the hands of this terrible agent. Based on the life of a disturbing figure: the woman who rose highest in the PIDE hierarchy, still unknown to most Portuguese people today.

Salta para o Saco
João and Ludovina are a young couple whose love is put to the test through various adventures. Saint Peter chooses them to try to instruct the angels about the realities of life. Throughout the story, Saint Peter himself appears disguised to the two young people and in one of these disguises offers a special bag to João, testing his courage and bravery. But will the love of Soldier João and Young Ludovina withstand the war, the heat, the cold, the flies and, above all, the distance?…

Letters from Viana: Guerra Junqueiro
In Viana do Castelo, Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro married, lived and worked between 1879 and 1890; he was Secretary General of the Civil Government of Viana do Castelo; he wrote The Tear; The Little Moleirinha; The Hunter Simão; he corresponded with Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão; he was a friend of Luis Augusto de Oliveira and António Feijó. The rest is contained in the Letters from Viana: Guerra Junqueiro.

From Índia?!
A couple of teachers far from home, without a home. Only he was placed. She is working remotely. He has to teach Portuguese but he is a History teacher. She can help but she doesn't cook. He cooks but he has to prepare the material. The Auto da Índia, from 1509. Portugal, from 2023.

Lápis Cor de Carne
Children's and family's play about building a new world for everyone.

My body is not your country
Solo show about migrant women and their bodies.

Spicy White
A comedy about cultural differences.

Pains of Youth
A play about a group of bourgeois young doctors, a portrait of a discontented post-war generation.

The Heresy of Love
A play about Sor Juana de la Cruz.

Barulheira
A play/ performance based on Álvaro Lapa's texts.
AUDIOVISUAL

Six Days After Forever
A poetic exploration of human identity and genetic editing that distorts fiction and reality.

Som
Short film sci-fi horror inspired.

The Lover
Theatrical film or rehearsed film. Site-specific. From The Lover by Howard Barker.

Saint Joan of the Stockyards
Meta-cinematographic construction which explores the plateau as a place of rehearsal and theatre where actors, amateurs, and unemployed locals share the same work experience. From Brecht's play Saint Joan of the Stockyards.

The Girl from Berlin
Short. A young woman returns to Lisbon to meet her ex-boyfriend after a stay in Berlin.

The Nightwatch
Feature film that adopted Heiner Müller's text Quartett, produced on site and premiered at the Cinema Batalha's main room.

Music Videos
TEXTS &
community work & classes
COMMUNITY WORK & CLASSES

PLÊIADES 2023
Summer holidays with kids

18 262 Madrugadas
TERRA COM FLOR
Drama classes with ex shipyards' workers Sep-Jul

PLÊIADES 2024
Summer drama classes for kids
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