Companhia Cepa Torta

Crew:

Adaptation, Dramaturgy and Staging:

Miguel Maia, from several texts (The Baron, by Branquinho da Fonseca, The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley, The Eye, by George Bataille, among others).

Interpretation and co-creation

Inês Garrido, Isac Graça, Rita Marques and Telmo Mendes

Production management

Leonor Buescu

Press office

Mafalda Simões

Design

Edoardo Trave

Scenic Space

Miguel Maia

Costumes

Sofia Lima

Light Design

Manuel Abrantes

Light Operation

Carolina Caramelo / Gonçalo Morais

Video

Mário Jerónimo Negrão

Photography

Sónia Godinho

Video recording

André Godinho Lopes

Audio recording

Félix Brückelmann

Age rating

M / 14

There are four performers in front of us, on stage. They came to tell us the story of The Baron, a story by Branquinho da Fonseca. They are prepared, by the way they look at us. They're expectant, with the pupils wide open, like animals prepared for an attack. They have a purpose, every day, to find desire. The drive that inhabits them, the hidden place that they cannot always access. They then resort to The Baron's short story as they know that in this story there is an inspector who does not like to travel and who highly appreciates his status, and an eccentric Baron with a dark past and lost passions. All paths are open, when, on a stage, we mix actors and desire.

To find, in this search, an idea of desire and something hidden in the unconscious, a movement. A hand lift, a song, a disposition of the body that makes us, even for a second, access the place we want: that of an absolute contemplation of the beautiful. We know it is impossible, but we are unable to resist.