BOCA MURALHA . the benevolent
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“In the bodily rhetoric of honor: The signs for recognizing those most suited to this profession are a lively, alert manner, and erect head, a taut stomach, broad shoulders, long arms, strong fingers, a small belly, thick thighs, slender legs and dry feet.”_ Michel Foucault on Discipline and Punish
BOCA MURALHA - the benevolent, presents a scenic research about the relation between protocols and impetus from a state of confrontation, in order to build up a spectacle of disciplines and practices of war, imposing an evanescent process o unfolding the body, where each piece is exposed, as if it was an animal.
It is established a normative set of regulations between the correlations of two bodies, drawing a political anatomy of detail, based on specific character-archetypes:
The soldier - the honour and the military discipline of control
The convict - the flesh, the victim, the murderer
The furies – mythological and insatiable impulse of revenge and justice.
BOCA MURALHA - the benevolent is the final PIECE of the trilogy REI about archetypes of power and violence.
SHOWS
23rd September 2016 - (Première) Materiais Diversos Festival, Portugal
1st October 2016 - Circular Festival, Portugal
2017 - National Theatre São João, Portugal
TEAM
Creation and Direction: Catarina Miranda
Performance: Luísa Saraiva, Catarina Miranda
Sound and dramaturgic support: Jonathan Saldanha
Music: Jonathan Saldanha, Enno Poppe, Christoph Delz, Ansgar Beste (to be defined)
Light: João Teixeira
Production: Juan Luis Toboso/ SOOPA
Support: Direção Geral das Artes, Vila-Flor Theatre, Companhia Instável
Co-production: Materiais Diversos, Festival Circular