Handpicked from the same theatre lineup, scored for this weekend.
THEATRE
Hotel Paradoxo
Performance at Planetário da Marinha. A time traveller chooses to return to summer 2009 in Lisboa, navigating conflicts and personal reflection.
THEATRE
Burn Burn Burn
Inspired by Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro and Isabel Costa create a theatrical examination of contemporary society and its relationship with knowledge and freedom.
THEATRE
Analphabet
At dusk on Gulpiyuri beach, a ghost named Analphabet emerges after a couple's heated argument, telling his story and singing songs to them.
THEATRE
Rei Lear
Political prisoner Álvaro Cunhal translated Shakespeare's King Lear in Lisbon's penitentiary between 1953 and 1955, aided by his sister. Teatro do Bairro stages this translation, a clandestine act of resistance and artistic defiance.
COMEDY
Alvorada
Alvorada Comedy Club brings stand-up comedy to Lisboa, filling the city's nights with laughter across multiple venues.
MUSICAL
Hercules
Filipe La Féria's epic musical creation following the success of Beauty and the Beast. Inspired by the legendary 12 labours of the hero, exploring heroic mythology through song and spectacle.
THEATRE
D. Juan
São Luiz examines myth as an entity crossing time to confront a world in permanent change. Identities shift, opening new dramatic possibilities in this contemporary staging.
MUSICAL
In the Heights
Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about New York of Puerto Rican heritage, the breakthrough that preceded Hamilton as one of the major phenomena of American musical theatre.