2017

WE'RE GONNA BE ALRIGHT
Cão Solteiro & André Godinho

 PREMIERE | September, Culturgest, Lisbon

"I have told myself a thousand times not to be shocked again by
what people will do to have fun, for reasons they cannot explain."
Will Self, My Idea Of Fun

Following We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes, Play, The Film and Day for Night, the theatre company Cão Solteiro and filmmaker André Godinho proceed with the research on the relationships between theatre and film, this time approaching commercial cinema.

Working with everything an audience expects from a blockbuster, the show is built with the most spectacular elements: special effects.

Those effects do not serve, in this case, a narrative – they take its place, postponing it indefinitely – and because they’re out of context, they are no longer special.

As in old cinema, functioning as a fair attraction, what will be seen is spectacle for spectable, effect without cause, an assemblage of attractions.

We’re Gonna Be Alright is a blockbusted with sex, blood and violence.

A show co-created by Cão Solteiro & André Godinho
Actors Ana Alves, Cecília Henriques, Crista Alfaiate, Paula Sá Nogueira, Rafaela
Jacinto. Special Participation Daniel Seabra
Costumes Mariana Sá Nogueira  Set Design Cão Solteiro & André Godinho in collaboration with Vasco Araújo
Sound Emídio Buchinho  Light Daniel Worm d’Assumpção  Video André Godinho  
Director of photography João Ribeiro  Colorist Andreia Bertini  Music Filipe Sambado
Make-up Olga José, Sofia Frazão  Wig Fátima Sousa
Seamstresses Helena Quinan e Ivone Basílio (sportive Wear) Teresa Louro (dress) Aldina Jesus (period costume)  Set Construction Decor Galamba  Props Ana Alves, Nuno Tomaz
Texts Book | Programme Francisco Frazão, Maria Sequeira Mendes , Mariana Sá Nogueira, Nuno Fonseca
Production and photography Joana Dilão
 
Support Bazar do Vídeo, Cedro Plátano, Mad Stunts, Walla Collective  
   
 
Artistic Residency O Espaço do Tempo - Montemor-o-Novo

Co-production Cão Solteiro / Culturgest               

2016


ISTO É UMA TRAGÉDIA | THIS IS A TRAGEDY
Cão Solteiro & Vasco Araújo

PREMIERE | November | Maria Matos Teatro Municipal, Lisbon

According to some people, human existence and human relations can be described as a failure, in which we fail to acknowledge each other, in which we seem to be insufficient and lonely. In the face of all of this, these people claim, silence seems to be the best way to describe existence.

This is a Tragedy chooses another viewpoint. In this performance, we consider that, given the impossibility of understanding others perfectly, we should give up and talk, that we should talk incessantly, without stopping. Nothing remains.

In this performance, everything there is to see is there to be seen, nothing is hidden or will be revealed at the ending, there are no mysteries or sudden disclosures. 

The aim of this show is that of life, to talk our way into disappearing into oblivion.

A show co-created by Cão Solteiro & Vasco Araújo in collaboration with José Maria Vieira Mendes | Costumes Mariana Sá Nogueira | Light Daniel Worm | Sound Emídio Buchinho | Actors Patrícia da Silva, Paula Sá Nogueira, Raimundo Cosme, Sónia Baptista, Vasco Araújo | Program Texts  Maria Sequeira Mendes, Nuno Fonseca | Production and Photography Joana Dilão

2015


MORCEAU DE BRAVURE
CÃO SOLTEIRO and ANDRÉ GODINHO for CNB

Premiere | November | Teatro Camões, Lisbon
 
A co-production between theatre company  Cão Solteiro and the Portuguese National Ballet Company /CNB.  
Morceau de Bravoure is a show about the act of applauding and the act of bowing.
The performance starts at the end of a show, and imagines what would happen if the audience didn’t stop clapping for more than an hour.

Created by Cão Solteiro and André Godinho   
Wardrobe Mariana Sá Nogueira  Sets Vasco Araújo
Choreography Rui Lopes Graça   Lighting Daniel Worm   Sound Nuno Fonseca  Musical adaptation Francisco Ferreira  Makeup Sano de Perpessac   
Actors Cecília Henriques, Patrícia da Silva, Paulo Lages, Tiago Barbosa  Dancers from the Nacional Ballet Company  Special participation the dog Zuzu