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ScreenPlay and Perfoming / Synopsis / Main Route
ScreenPlay and Perfoming:
Artistic Creation: PERIPÉCIA TEATRO
Perfomance: Noelia Domínguez e Luis Filipe Santos.
Sound Effects: Pedro Cabral, Paulo Almeida e Paulo Araújo.
Scene Photography: Miguel Meireles.
Stage Lightning: Ángel Fragua e Paulo Neto.
Wardrobe: Noelia Domínguez.
Stage and Atrezzo: Zétavares.
Assistant Director: Sérgio Agostinho.
Director: Ángel Fragua.
Approximate length of the play: 70 minutes.
The play was performed for the first time in November the 6th in the Theatre of Vila
Real.
Registered in Inspecção Geral das Actividades Culturais with nº.1088-2008
Classification: above 12 years old
Synopsis:
A woman showing a comical pregnancy, and a funny musician building a
humorous and full of sensitivity spectacle.
A Cabaret dancing girl is crazily in love.
This drives her mad and starts arriving late to work.
By the while, her crazy passion leads her to become pregnant, which makes her
be into trouble at work.
Fed up with her, the Cabaret`s director fires the woman.
Furthermore, abandoned by her lover to her fate, she doesn't find any other
chance than to wander.
On her own, out of money, lonely and with a belly full of life, she tries to survive
using her own imagination to escape from harsh reality.
Through her way she meets a street musician, the stray guy that will help her to
overcome her troubles, and to whom she will establish an ambiguous
relationship in between convenience, friendship and well-rounded
disagreement.
Thanks for her cunning attitude, she manages to count on some money to go to
the gynecologist's surgery, which in fact it is revealed as a situation of
bureaucrat, crazy people, apathetic on the one hand but suddenly stressed.
Even so, when contradictions appear it is there where she will be back,
accompanied by her friend the musician, who will provide with a delirious tone
to a non-conventional birth.
“We wanted to start from my own experience and from the experience of most
of the mothers of the whole world, just to transform them into a comic and
poetic universe, able to transmit genuine feelings of the human nature.
Through this play we want to pay tribute to all the mothers- and also fathersthat have faith and enough strength to bring birth to this planet, which is huge,
but in fact it is still a little rough around the edges and not a big deal.
We expect with this play that all men and women, never mind their
geographical origin or culture, will laugh with us about all the disadvantages you
have to go through to give birth, to have a baby, adverse situations that
transform us, pregnant women, in desperate, absurd human beings but always
with a tender essence that protects and lights up everywhere we go through.
Science says that sense of humour, as well as artistic creation are a
characteristically feature of the human being.
We say that humour and poetry come to be struggle tools and a whisper of
Positivism and Optimistic attitude in a world where life surrenders due to the
lack of food, excessive bombs and money distributed in a wrong way. A funny
struggle which appeals to our most real and pure humanity.”
Mummy/Mom
Main Route
Theatre of Vila Real
Theatre of “Miguel Franco”, Leiria
Theatre Club, “Póvoa de Lanhoso”
Auditorium of Póvoa de Varzim
Casa das Artes, “Arcos de Valdevez”
Local Auditorium of Lousada
Theatre of Ribeiro Conceição, Lamego
Local theatre of Guarda
Novo Ciclo ACERT Theatre, Tondela
Cultural Association of Aradas, Aveiro
Cultural Centre of Vila Das Aves