The premiere of “Noite de Reis”, by the Almada Theater Company, and the revision of a work by Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs are presented this year at the 39th Almada Festival, which begins on July 4.
The complete program will only be announced in June, but the organization has already revealed some of the twenty shows that will be part of the Almada Festival, “which returns to its traditional format, from July 4 to 18”, spread over nine stages between Almada and Lisbon. .
In co-presentation with the Teatro Nacional D. María II, the festival returns to the dramaturgy of North American director Robert Wilson, with a new version of the play “I was sitting on my patio, this guy appeared, I thought I was hallucinating”, which premiered in 1977 with Lucinda Childs.
The new version, presented in 2021 at the Festival d’Automne in Paris, will be performed by the German actor Christopher Nell and the Australian dancer Julie Shanahan on July 16 and 17 at the D. Maria II National Theater in Lisbon.
The Almada Festival will also feature the premiere of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, the fifth creation this year by the Almada Theater Company, staged by Peter Kleinert.
According to the organization, this 39th edition of the Almada Festival will feature seven Portuguese productions and 13 foreign productions, including, for the first time, the presence of the Franco-Catalan company Baro D’Evel, with the show “Falaise”, in which “eight ‘performers’, a horse and several pigeons dance crosswise with acrobatics, voice and music”.
Belgian choreographer Wim Vanderkeybus will bring the show “Hands don’t touch your precious self” to Almada, and the German company Schaubuhne returns to the festival with Maja Zade’s “Odipus”, staged by Thomas Ostermeier.
The full program will be announced on June 15 at the Casa da Cerca, in Almada.
Source: Observadora
