Handpicked from the same theatre lineup, scored for this weekend.
MUSIC
Bicholé
Inspired by Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals. Body rhythms, grave footsteps and whimsical animal calls celebrate music and movement in a special party for all creatures.
COMEDY
Travesty
Part artistic performance, part historical narrative, part manifesto at Teatro Tivoli BBVA. Travesty traces the secret queer history of a single location across time, beginning with a witch's burning.
THEATRE
A Bronx Tale: One Man Show
Chazz Palminteri performs his 1988 autobiographical one-man play, a powerful account of a difficult Bronx childhood marked by intense episodes and formative encounters.
EXPERIMENTAL
Editing Exercise by Joana Craveiro
Joana Craveiro transforms images captured in Palestine into live performance, questioning whether a film in progress can become performance art at Centro Cultural de Belém.
THEATRE
Dead Poets Society
At a US boarding school, a charismatic teacher challenges the rigid pillars of Tradition, Discipline, Honour, and Excellence, inspiring students toward individual expression and freedom of thought.
THEATRE
True West
At Teatro da Trindade INATEL, Austin writes a Hollywood screenplay until his older brother Lee arrives after three months in the desert, disrupting his plans.
MUSICAL
Evita
Rock-opera musical at Capitólio tracing the rise and fall of Eva Perón, Argentina's iconic and controversial first lady. Set in the 1930s and 1940s, it follows her dramatic journey.
MUSICAL
Rent
Musical following a year in the lives of bohemian friends struggling to survive in East Village, New York during the 1990s, celebrating love and perseverance.
