Four years after its passage by Al -Mayada to accompany the offers of two texts, the French writer édouard Lewis The 42nd edition of the festival, which will be held between 4 and 18 July. In 2021, the Belgian Leada received Evo Van Hove and Croatian Evica Bolgan, respectively, respectively, Who killed my father E History of violence. This time, the same thing History of violence It will reach Portugal in the well -known graduation that German Thomas Ostremere (also) has signed the historic Schaubühne in Berlin.
On this international theater day, where the festival passes are announced for sale as well temperatureThe honor exhibition last year, which the audience chose to repeat existence in 2025, and Joël Pommerat with MariusIt is already known since the launch of the Almada Theater season in January. The BELém Cultural Center (CCB) has already announced, in the context of its programming and partnership with the festival, coming to the French company Barrow from With the piece Here is a total? The home company will, for the first time in the festival Goodbye more goodbyeFrom the Nobel Prize for Austrian literature Peter Handak.
History of violenceThe second book, published by Edward Lewis in 2016, said his name is among the largest new generation of French authors, in appreciation. Writing raw and direct. A From a very personal place and Biography, a His work deals with topics such as homosexuality, family conflict and bankruptcy of the European left as a representative of the poor population and attackers by central governments. in History of violenceHe focuses in particular on describing the meeting with a stranger, ascending with him to his apartment to spend the Christmas night, a situation that falls in violation and harsh aggression.
The book, which is also entered into issues of racism, colonialism, homosexuality, and the control of the narration, was adapted to the theater in 2018, in this version that will now reach the Mayada, by Thomas Ostarmeer, Florian Portshir and the author itself, and will receive presentations on July 9 and 10 at the Joakim Bennett Theater in Aldada. For Ostermeier, the coach of a young man and one of the great names of the contemporary European theater, this will be the fourth corridor for Almada, after that sample (2022), from the double dose Gaiveeta E Mite (2016) and Disco pigs (2002). In the middle, in 2019, presented Ricardo III No national theater Maria II.
Also at the Joaquim Benite Theater, on July 13 and 14, Joel Pomatrat It will provide MariusA very special piece, born from the French director with Jean Ruimi, a man who was sentenced to a long time prison, and is currently serving it in a high security prison in Arien, Provence. After he was summoned to arrest him by the director of the Foundation, in cooperation with director Caroline Guilla Ngwin, Pomatrat held a presentation with Ruimi, from improvisation sessions with the representative of the isolated hurricane, in turn, in the return play of Marcel Baghnol.
In the same room, Almada Theater Company, the festival organization, will appear as usual, new production during this week, in which all theatrical paths in Portugal will be granted the city of the southern West Bank. Goodbye more goodbyeWhere Peter Handek focuses on the path of his mother’s life to the final suicide.
At the opening of the festival, on the fourth and fifth, Baru del to the CCB stage will go from Seam?The first part of the trips in which they work on ceramic and collective construction forms. temperatureThat will perform 6 and 7 at the Romeo Correa Forum, is the original adaptation of the last Shakespeare by Compagnia Carlo Colla & Figli, who uses the voice of the registered theatrical writer at Filippo to talk about almost all characters in this aerial theater.
This Thursday is scheduled to be sold for the festival signatures (from 80 to 100 euros), which will bring the version 42 12 international creations and eight national creations spread in nine rooms from Almada and Lisbon. The remaining program will be known on June 18.
