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Margem

Victor Hugo Pontes

Bruno Simão

Manuel Roberto

Margem” [Margin] takes inspiration from Jorge Amado’s 1937 novel, “Captains of the Sands”, which portrays a group of abandoned children and teenagers living on the streets of São Salvador da Bahia, stealing to eat and sleeping in a warehouse by the docks where, as a kind of family, they watch over one another and survive one day at a time.

Eighty years after the book was published, I’m especially interested in enquiring who are the new captains of the sands, drawing inspiration from the social reality of these children, and being aware that endings aren’t always happy. Who are these marginalised people, and when do they start being so? In collaboration with Joana Craveiro, grounded in an idea of documentary theatre, this project is based on the work carried out with youngsters deprived of education, food, tenderness, a father, a mother; youngsters who committed crimes; youngsters who started out or ended up with less for reasons often having nothing to do with them.
— Victor Hugo Pontes

Credits

Direction Victor Hugo Pontes. Text Joana Craveiro. Set design F. Ribeiro. Music Marco Castro and Igor Domingues (Throes + The Shine). Technical direction and Light design Wilma Moutinho. Sound Operation Rodolfo Sá Pereira. Scenography assembly Valter Maior. Artistic consultant Madalena Alfaia. Performers and co-creators Alexandre Tavares, André Cabral, David S. Costa, Hugo Fidalgo, João Nunes Monteiro, José Santos, Magnum Soares, Marco Olival, Marco Tavares, Nara Gonçalves, Rui Pedro Silva and Vicente Campos. Performers 2022 Alexandre Tavares, David S. Costa, Inês Azedo, Ivo Santos, João Nunes Monteiro, José Santos, Magnum Soares, Marco Olival, Marco Tavares, Rafael Belinha, Sebastião Quintela e Tiago Ferreira. Production Direction Joana Ventura. Executive Producer Mariana Lourenço. Partnerships Centro de Educação e Desenvolvimento de Pina Manique - Casa Pia de Lisboa and Instituto Profissional do Terço. Residency support Centro Cultural Vila Flor. Co-production Nome Próprio, CCB / Fábrica das Artes and Teatro Aveirense.

Nome Próprio has the support of the Portuguese Republic – Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts and is a resident structure at Teatro Campo Alegre, within the scope of the Teatro em Campo Aberto program.