Handpicked from the same theatre lineup, scored for this weekend.
THEATRE
Hotel Paradoxo
The protagonist chooses to return to summer 2009 in Lisbon in this time-travel narrative. Conflicts in Gaza echo through his personal history and memories.
THEATRE
Burn Burn Burn
Inspired by Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro and Isabel Costa create a theatrical examination of contemporary society and its relationship with knowledge and freedom.
MUSICAL
Hercules
Filipe La Féria's epic musical creation following the success of Beauty and the Beast. Inspired by the legendary 12 labours of the hero, exploring heroic mythology through song and spectacle.
COMEDY
Insuficiente
Stand-up comedy exploring a lifelong sensation of never being enough. Imposter syndrome, bad luck, or a cosmic miscalculation? A performer's raw interrogation of sufficiency and belonging.
THEATRE
Rei Lear
Political prisoner Álvaro Cunhal translated Shakespeare's King Lear in Lisbon's penitentiary between 1953 and 1955, aided by his sister. Teatro do Bairro stages this translation, a clandestine act of resistance and artistic defiance.
THEATRE
D. Juan
What is a myth - an entity that crosses time to confront a permanently changing world? In Don Juan, identities shift and blur. São Luiz Teatro Municipal stages this exploration of myth and transformation.
MUSICAL
In the Heights
Lin-Manuel Miranda's celebrated musical about Washington Heights, the phenomenon that preceded Hamilton, at Teatro Variedades.
THEATRE
Veneno - história de um casamento
A man and woman reunite after ten years apart. Once married, they suffered a devastating loss and separated, harbouring unresolved pain. Teatro Aberto stages their reckoning with the past.