Parasomnia – Patrícia Portela

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.
Parasomnia consists of an installation-performance spread across several rooms stimulating the production of melatonin as well as the sleepiness vapours suitable for inducing a sleep conducive to lucid dreams, the slowing down of bodies and the dragging of lives.

Space, text, images Patrícia Portela video mural antechamber  Irmã Lucia lighting Leonardo Simões violin Elisabeth Drouwé  sound space antechamber Christoph de Boeck editor Isabel Garcez voices Célia Fechas and Thiago Arrais performers Patrícia Portela, Célia Fechas, Mónica Coteriano, Leonor Barata and Thiago Arrais soporific food Foodlovers Companie / Annick Gernaey jewelry Alda Salaviza waiting benches João Gonçalves construction of waiting benches Leonel & Bicho construction of bathtub Daniel Neagoe, Atelier Pica-Pau production Prado, Associação Cultural coproduction Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Kaaitheater, Festival de Artes de Macau, Maria Matos Teatro Municipal – 2017-2018 Season.