23 – 26 November 2024 — Monchique
28 November – 01 December 2024 — Odemira
This is a story about fear, the kind we feel and the kind that is imposed on us. Above all, it is a eulogy to true courage, which doesn't lie in the strength of a closed fist against a face but in the warmth of our heart: something we can call confidence, something that we must nurture, water, and twist from an early age (like a cucumber).
It's a performance "forbidden to anyone who isn't constantly amazed by its existence." Based on two works of fiction with the same title, one by Portuguese author José Gomes Ferreira and the other by Flemish author Constant de Kinder, the company Laika, theater van den zinnen and Prado - Associação Cultural have come together to create a mobile installation where you can walk through the story of a Fearless John and a Fearful John. Both have something very serious in common: they challenge their fear and gain courage through trusting their senses and intuitions or by exercising the strongest muscle in our bodies: imagination.
AVENTURAS is an interactive and sensory installation where participants are invited to watch the adventures they want to go on and immerse themselves in worlds, overcoming forks and challenges, overcoming doubts and sharing, together, anxieties but also new possibilities for looking at and living with fear.
/Directed by Patrícia Portela e Peter de Bie
/Text Patrícia Portela
/Dramaturgy Mieke Versyp
/Portuguese performers Miguel Baltazar, Sara Alexandra e David Costa
/Belgian performers Mirthe Duquesnoy, Célia Fechas e Sara Sampelayo
/Set design Peter de Bie
/Costumes Leentje Kerremans
/Sound design Miguel Abras
/Technical Director Zé Rui
/Technician Paulo Gomes
/Production Nuno Eusébio e Sara Alexandra
/A Production Prado Associação Cultural e Laika, Theater der zinnen
/Support for the artistic residency Teatro Regional da Serra do Montemuro
/Co-producers Lavrar o Mar, Rota Clandestina, A Oficina– Centro de Artes e Mesteres Tradicionais de Guimarães e CIPRL
/With the support of the Fundação GDA e Era uma Voz, Teatro Ibisco, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa/Quinta Alegre
/Project funded by República Portuguesa - Cultura | DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes