In Place of a Show

The Bairro Alto Theatre, which is not in Bairro Alto (but almost), will soon reopen. It is a new municipal theatre in Lisbon. In the meantime, we are already getting started: first online and now across the city with a series of events taking place between day and night, the ground and the sky, nearby and faraway; so that we can look and listen while we are standing still or moving, upright or lying on the ground, or even sitting in chairs. For now, nothing we are planning is in the theatre (but close by); and nothing will be actual theatre, but intimate and unusual moments that rethink and transform everything that surrounds them.
What happens inside theatres when nothing is happening?

Drawing attention away from the human element (the work of performers, artists, audiences, architects, etc), this conference-performance focuses on the buildings themselves: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished. In Lisbon, Corrieri will present, in a double bill, his lectures on the Vicenza’s Teatro Olimpico and London’s Dalston Theatre.